Exquisite Quotes
360 quotes by 241 authors
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Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.
— Nikki Gemmell
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Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
— Stanley Crouch
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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is…
— Laozi
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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
— Oscar Wilde
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as…
— Confucius
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I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.
— Audrey Hepburn
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What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work,…
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no…
— Robert C. Solomon
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Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high…
— Charlie Munger
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There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form…
— Glenn T. Seaborg
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In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,…
— Unknown Author
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining…
— Roger Angell
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny -…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass…
— Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
— Oscar Wilde
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Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help…
— Keith Ferrazzi
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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
— Karl Shapiro
Who Wrote These Exquisite Quotes
241 authors contributed a total of 360 Exquisite Quotes, led by these top contributors: