It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of… — David Berkowitz Copy Share Image
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed. — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
I like two things in women: their software and their hardware ; i.e. delicacy and good look. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression. — Richard Lloyd Copy Share Image
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom… — Ouida Copy Share Image
the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled… — George Will Copy Share Image
Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
