Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. — Gordon Ramsay
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than… — Alan Rickman
When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. — Henry Rollins
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' — Marilyn vos Savant
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. — Jessica Savitch
I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially.… — Jill Scott
I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. — Jerry Seinfeld
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. — Steven Spielberg
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. — Robert Louis Stevenson
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes… — Lewis Thomas
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. — Anthony Trollope
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come… — Evelyn Waugh
I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. — Oscar Wilde
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so… — Hunter S. Thompson
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions. — Tony Kushner
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?… — Charlotte Bronte
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. — Isabel Allende

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