Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life. — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it. — Ann Reinking 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
“I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue. ("The Accursed Cordonnier")” — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small… — Steve Almond 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
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of… — R. A. Torrey 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
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
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
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
The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could… — Tom Robbins 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
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
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
She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the… — Walter Pater 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
“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
