Exquisite Quotes

360 Exquisite quotes by 241 unique authors

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture:… — Salvador Dali
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. — Benjamin Franklin
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the… — Joy Williams
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because… — Lynn Abbey
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. — Desiderius Erasmus
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! — Rex Reed
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. — Marguerite Yourcenar
Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. — Nikki Gemmell
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. — Stanley Crouch
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
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
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
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. — Oscar Wilde
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
I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment. — Audrey Hepburn
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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