Best Delicacy Sayings
128 Delicacy quotes by 110 unique authors
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate…
— Hans Heysen
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I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing…
— Linda Ronstadt
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Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt…
— Clifford Allbutt
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Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in…
— Todd English
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
— Stephen Gardiner
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'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that…
— Robertson Davies
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It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices…
— Herman Melville
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Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
— John Evelyn
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Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
— Emile M. Cioran
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At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
— Morinosuke Kawaguchi
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My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more…
— Euell Gibbons
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Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,…
— Walt Whitman
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
— Edmund Burke
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A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to…
— Wilferd Peterson
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The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
— Michel de Montaigne
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and…
— Jonathan Swift
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Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
— Martial
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HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog…
— Ambrose Bierce
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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
— Robert Bly
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Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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