It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

— Philip Sidney

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

— Helen McCrory

Sometimes wishes that life had a fast forward button, so that I could press that button and have you next to me faster. I…

— Nishan Panwar

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

— Martial

Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a…

— Jim Cummings

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a…

— Euell Gibbons

If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end…

— Michael Ruhlman

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast…

— Charles Dickens

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

— David Hume

“...there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.”

— Herman Melville

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch