Delicacy Quotes
128 quotes by 119 authors
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse…
— Jane Austen
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Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without…
— William Montagu-Pollock
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can…
— Sun Tzu
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special…
— Ivan Illich
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their…
— Samuel Johnson
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A…
— Rajneesh
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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one…
— Anatole France
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.…
— Charles Dickens
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical…
— Herbert Spencer Jennings
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You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of…
— Lori Borgman
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation,…
— Abraham Hayward
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People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.
— Alan Cohen
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But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman.…
— Luigi Veronelli
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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
— Mark Twain
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Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism
— Henning Eichberg
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in…
— Lord Byron
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity…
— Jean Genet
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I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The…
— Lydia Lunch
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If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in…
— Michael Ruhlman
Who Wrote These Delicacy Quotes
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