People Quote by Ayn Rand

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

— Cindy Gerard

I like to be subtle, without being too obvious.

— Chris de Burgh

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

— Isaac Asimov

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

— Linus Torvalds

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

— Albert Einstein

Make subtlety obvious.

— Billy Wilder

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

— Eric Hoffer

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

— Peter Erskine

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that…

— Dante Alighieri

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

— Neal A. Maxwell

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.

— Phillip Lopate