Subtle Quotes

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I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I… — Kij Johnson
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,… — Virginia Woolf
the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry,… — Jim Butcher
Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty… — Tana French
It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had… — Lisa Kleypas
Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted… — Pablo Neruda
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be… — Anne Lamott
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all… — H.G. Wells
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. — Roberto Bolano
Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it. — Laurell K. Hamilton
He doesnâ€™t have to say it, i feel it too; itâ€™s not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once,… — Jandy Nelson
Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to… — Patrick Rothfuss
You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that… — Tom Robbins
They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but… — Maureen Johnson
Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.… — C.S. Lewis
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what… — Alfred Hitchcock
Laney held up a hand. "I checked it out. He went there on scholarship and paid the rest with student loans. And he's good looking,… — Julie James
We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced. — Ilona Andrews

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