Subtle Quotes

I love comedies, both broad and subtle.

— Michaela Watkins

“Sometimes tyranny isn't so subtle or creative.”

— Steven Wood Collins

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

— Martin Freeman

I like to be subtle, without being too obvious.

— Chris de Burgh

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

— John Milton

I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Physics is simple, but subtle.

— Paul Ehrenfest

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

— Fred Alan Wolf

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Her beauty was much more subtle – like a gentle scent that lingered and took time to appreciate.”

— Jason Luke

The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.

— Thomas Paine

“They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women .”

— Jim Butcher

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

— Piers Paul Read

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

— Rosita Forbes

“One man's subtle is another man's blatantly obvious." (Oddly this does not seem to apply to women)”

— M.K. Alexander

“True pillar of subtle light embrace humanity between dimensions, they are serene consciousness washing the pains of all soul's.”

— Dave Zebian

O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing…

— Torquato Tasso

I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on;…

— Steven Spielberg

The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch.

— Leonard Maltin

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep…

— Holly Black

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking…

— Anonymous

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by…

— Craig Brown

A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation.…

— Anonymous

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on…

— James G. Frazer

So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives…

— Flora Thompson

Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are…

— John C. Reilly

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

I am the most concerned that we end up in a situation where your - everything is known about you and so…

— Tim Wu

Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or…

— Anne Lamott

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Look, and it can't be seen. Listen, and it can't be heard. Reach, and it can't be grasped. Above, it isn't bright.…

— Anonymous

As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing…

— Edward Norton

“You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle…

— Jodi Picoult

Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions…

— Dan Millman

This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it,…

— Ralph Waldo Trine

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above…

— Mahatma Gandhi