Exquisite Quotes
360 quotes by 252 authors
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
— Robert Burns
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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
— John Cleese
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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.
— Steve Kangas
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of…
— Maggie Gallagher
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish,…
— Hermann Hesse
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Ever since Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established this devotion the voice of the people, which is the voice of God, called it the Rosary.…
— Louis de Montfort
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Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ…
— Freeman Dyson
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled…
— Doris Lessing
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The Earth school is not a concept. It is an an ongoing 3-dimesional, full colour, hi-fidelity, interactive multi-media experience that does not end until your…
— Gary Zukav
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There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
— Moliere
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the…
— Loren Eiseley
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out…
— Thomas Huxley
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is,…
— J. B. Priestley
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Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
— Desire-Joseph Mercier
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Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
— Polykarp Kusch
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There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the…
— Lucas Malet
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The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
— Vera Kistiakowsky
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The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the…
— Leon Uris
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