Subtlest Quotes
34 Subtlest quotes by unique 34 authors
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that…
— Walter Savage Landor
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I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
— Giancarlo Esposito
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We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.
— Lindy West
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We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The…
— Walter Weyl
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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far…
— Morris Graves
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Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and…
— Aleister Crowley
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
— George Eliot
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The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say…
— C.S. Lewis
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The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved;…
— Thomas Mann
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or…
— Leo Rosten
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
— John Webster
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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the…
— William Nicholson
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It can take a lifetime for many people to come to terms with the freedom they truly have to think for themselves. But this path…
— M. Scott Peck
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