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Delicate Quotes by John Updike
- It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense…
- My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair…
More Delicate Quotes
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — 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… — 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… — Alex Faickney Osborn