Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate… — Bill Watterson
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. — Frank Herbert
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms… — Erich Maria Remarque
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara… — Haruki Murakami
How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation… — Douglas Hofstadter
It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. — Susanna Kaysen
I donâ€™t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edmund Burke
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a… — William Butler Yeats
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some… — Dorothy Day
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my… — Hunter S. Thompson
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soulâ€™s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must… — Gustave Flaubert
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate,… — Vera Nazarian
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat… — Henry David Thoreau
Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift… — Dorothy Parker
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had.… — Haruki Murakami
A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and… — Libba Bray

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