Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,… — Diane Ackerman
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against… — Teresa of Avila
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. — Max Beerbohm
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten.… — Annie Besant
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings
People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate. — Frank Bruno
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will… — Alex Faickney Osborn
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow — William Shakespeare
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Albert Einstein
You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where… — Esther Hicks
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. — Samuel Johnson
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to… — Madame de Stael
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. — Ovid
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would… — Arthur C. Clarke
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust

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