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Delicate Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must…
More Delicate Quotes
- 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
- My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs,… — Rumi
- To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte
- Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Albert Einstein
- I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it… — Madame de Stael
- If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to… — 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… — Arthur Conan Doyle