Dainty Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits… — Pope Leo XII
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches… — Mark Twain
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food,… — Mignon McLaughlin
People always think Iâ€™m dainty when they meet me, but Iâ€™m really not. Iâ€™m very German â€“ weâ€™re not made out of sugar. — Diane Kruger
Everything I do is inspired by my early lifeâ€, Bourgeoisâ€™ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for… — Louise Bourgeois
There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig. — Doug Stanhope
So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to… — General Butt Naked
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.… — Anthony Trollope
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg. — Robert Herrick
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell… — Charles Dickens
Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a… — John Aylmer
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. — Francis Beaumont
I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11. — Maureen O'Hara
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep. — Miguel de Cervantes
Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied… — James Whistler
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. — William Shakespeare
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder,… — Hartley Coleridge

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