Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen… — Ellsworth Huntington
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500… — Edward Forbes
I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over… — Harry Connick, Jr.
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is… — Will Durant
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to… — Jean-Claude Ellena
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different… — Rollo May
It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that… — Vera Farmiga
I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a… — Yelawolf
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. — Bret Harte
The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally… — Joseph Addison
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour. — Maya Angelou
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long… — Oliver Goldsmith
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the… — Gilbert Parker
One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a… — Loren Eiseley

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