There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image