Subtlest Quotes

34 Subtlest quotes by unique 34 authors

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
I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much. — Giancarlo Esposito
We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder. — Lindy West
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
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
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
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. — George Eliot
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
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
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
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
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. — John Webster
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
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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