Exquisite Quotes

360 quotes by 241 authors

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. — Bernard Malamud
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. — Jacques Maritain
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. — Freddie Mercury
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. — Steven Pinker
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. — Edgar Allan Poe
Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. — Voltaire
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. — Kevin Smith
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only… — C.S. Lewis
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite… — Truman Capote
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more… — Oscar Wilde
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resultedâ€”Balder, Persephoneâ€”but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite… — Charlotte Bronte
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit… — Ray Bradbury
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. — Virginia Woolf
What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us… — Carl Sagan
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept. — Dave Eggers
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you… — Joseph Campbell
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome… — Oscar Wilde

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