Delicacy Quotes
Delicacy Quote of the day
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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.
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.
...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.
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
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!
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.
One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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?
Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.
But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
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.
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
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 delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
