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
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. The” — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
With a pie, the crust is a real delicacy. It's very hard to get it just right because it's got to be… — Keri Russell 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
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
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than… — Isaac D'Israeli 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
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. — Lily King Copy Share Image
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
I go "I just want a cup of black coffee." She goes "Do you want to try a biscotti? They're from Italy… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
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
Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism — Henning Eichberg Copy Share Image
