Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look. — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
Feelings are d most delicate thing in life never hurt them when anyone trulyvshows it to u coz theres a great saying…… — Sakina Saify Copy Share Image
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Every move is a creation, Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation, The line is a creation, Survival is a creation, Freedom… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Jane was wearing a charcoal shift dress. The black dipped into a love V accented with a large black chiffon bow. A… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity… — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate… — Anne Sexton 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
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses… — Elizabeth Spires Copy Share Image
“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Words are delicate instruments: How to use them so that, after having read the poem, the taste remaining is not of the… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.” — Melvin Musera Copy Share Image
I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at… — John Keats Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is a really 'delicate' show. I would probably use a word more like 'zany.' — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“A buttercup is a wild yellow flower that is as beautiful as it is delicate, and can adapt and flourish in the… — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
