Exquisite Quotes

360 quotes by 251 authors

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural… — Sally Carrighar
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… — Victor Hugo
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter… — Adrienne Rich
Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory… — Gabriele d'Annunzio
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With deft prose and… — Deanna Raybourn
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it… — Jason Schwartzman
It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite… — David Suchet
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature — Carl Sagan
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. — Leigh Hunt
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world… — Ansel Adams
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little… — James Lane Allen
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what oneâ€™s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge… — Bernard Malamud
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. — George Santayana
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were… — Mark Twain
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite… — Elizabeth David

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