It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Five hours of pain…exquisite...yes...I am far from well...but I can see it over there...looks…kinda boring… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
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
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become… — Perrey Reeves Copy Share Image
On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Ode to Passion . She floats over, Dark, Mysteries, Dangerous, Exquisite possibility, Absolute Ruin. Giggling, She moves closer, Eyes of Flame, Hands… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never,” I assure her. “I’ll never leave you.” Never will I concede to death when she’s in my grasp. This beautiful creature… — Amelia Hutchins Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight /… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There are times in life when even the smallest words or actions are infused with the most exquisite meaning. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers… — Moliere Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled… — Zoe Akins Copy Share Image
The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman? — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
![“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess…” quote by E. M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d93/e-m-forster-1118_august_in-europe-life-retreats-out-of-the-cold_1674386.jpg)
