Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled. — Leonor Varela Copy Share Image
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all… — Elisa Kreisinger Copy Share Image
One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of… — Mona Van Duyn Copy Share Image
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of… — Hans Heysen Copy Share Image
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools… — Thomas Munro Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism — Henning Eichberg Copy Share Image
