Delicate Quotes · Page 6

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

— Mark Udall

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

— Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

— Samuel Johnson

“A delicate soul is like a soft surface and scratches occur on soft surfaces very easily!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

— Natalie Wood

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

— Ben Jonson

My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had…

— Harry Connick, Jr

This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's…

— Scott Carpenter

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

— William Manchester

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is…

— Tasha Alexander

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of…

— Maria Mitchell

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate…

— David Trubridge

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this…

— Lewis Thomas

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the…

— Ward McAllister

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge…

— Harriet Lerner

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to…

— David Harvey

In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a…

— Marya Hornbacher

You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as…

— Philip the Apostle

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of…

— James Joyce

“When he appeared before the lord, his lordship was smitten immediately with the boy's unadorned beauty, like a first glimpse of the…

— Saikaku Ihara

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was…

— Anne Rice

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and…

— Plato

I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would…

— James Beard

When you're doing a play, you're onstage, there's no stopping or starting, there's no stopping to reposition for the camera or have…

— Aneurin Barnard

If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish…

— William Albert Allard

She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like…

— Christina Dodd

I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.…

— Anonymous

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

— Charley Pride

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

— Homer

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

— Evelyn Underhill

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

— Oscar Wilde

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

“If you really love someone, be very careful – it’s a very delicate instrument.”

— Art Hochberg

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

— Emile M. Cioran