Delicacy Quotes

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

Too great refinement is false delicacy,
and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy,
lofty things impressively,
and moderate things temperately.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical or physical methods; they are inadequate to its refinement and delicacy and complexity.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.