Exquisite Quotes

360 Exquisite quotes by 241 unique authors

I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You… — Oscar Wilde
There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. — Jack London
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside… — Peter Cameron
But we never get back our youthâ€¦ The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.… — Oscar Wilde
You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet. — Cameron Crowe
There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is… — Joyce Carol Oates
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean
Well, Iâ€™ve had my fun; Iâ€™ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atomsâ€”his… — Virginia Woolf
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is… — Isabelle Eberhardt
Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant… — Karen Marie Moning
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf
This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires,… — Stephenie Meyer
She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in… — Edmond Rostand
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists… — Oscar Wilde
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can… — Amitav Ghosh
The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron… — Megan Whalen Turner
She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky. — Patrick SÃ¼skind
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra… — Tony Kushner
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is… — Charles Dickens

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