Delicacy Quote by Fanny Burney

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous

“If practiced correctly, generosity can induce feelings of shame, inadequacy, and even envy, to name just a few.”

— David Sedaris

“the sweetness to be found in generosity”

— Marcel Proust

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.”

— Daniel Levin

“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.”

— Mia P

“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.”

— Mensah Oteh

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;”

— Kahlil Gibran

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

— John Dryden

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero