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

Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The — Charles Dickens

Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread. — Alan Coren

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious. — Steve Martin

We shall be known by the delicacy of where we stop short. — Robert Frost

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy. — Anthony Santasiere

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. — Jean Paul

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there. — Herman Melville

True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things. — Mary Howitt

Sublime delicacy of rose; how wonderful your heart, smells of our love. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace. — Lionel Suggs

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. — Margaret Of Valois

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

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled. — Leonor Varela

Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. — Robertson Davies

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury. — Charles Lamb

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction. — George Bernard Shaw

Do we really lack the delicacy to let God die quietly, on his own, like a dog? — Nick Land

Reserve delicacy of sentiment for friendship; accept love for what it is.... The more dignity you give it, the more dangerous you make it. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Her eyes, nose, hands, feet ... Each part was a supreme delicacy, and I was insatiable. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

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

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

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other. — Sophie Swetchine

In her desire, she confused the sensual pleasures of luxury with the joys of the heart, elegance of manner with delicacy of feeling. — Gustave Flaubert

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression. — Richard Lloyd

I muscled through the moment with my usual delicacy. — Nicole Peeler

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts. — Alan Cohen

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

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

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy. — Jane Austen

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty. — Edmund Burke

There is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk. — Herman Melville

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy. — Emil Cioran

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You know what scholars are like; no conscience at all when it comes to their own field, let alone a sense of social delicacy. — Diana Gabaldon

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes. — Philip Sidney

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

No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still — Charles Dickens

...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. — Mark Twain

Feminine delicacy was carried to excess in Mme de Renal. — Stendhal

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

Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. — Charles Dickens

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage. — Lindsay Duncan

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

Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman — Charles Dickens

Are not beauty and delicacy the same? — E. M. Forster

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi

I'm bookbrained-the act of book obsession common in writers. Not to be confused with bookbrains, a delicacy for zombies when eating the former. — Zara Steen

There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy. — Lily King

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

The delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne

Arriving late, thought the Count with a sigh. What a delicacy of youth. Then — Amor Towles

Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy. — Thomas Jefferson

True delicacy is not a fragile thing. — James Broughton

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

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

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

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. — Maria Montessori

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

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. — Joseph Marie, Baron De Gerando

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact. — David Foenkinos

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think. — Jose Andres

The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine — Charles Dickens

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy. — Dean Koontz

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope

Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end. — Helen Oyeyemi

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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? — Jonathan Swift

Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. — Charles Dickens

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

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 ... — Mona Van Duyn

Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours. — Thomas Jefferson

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney

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

Delicacy in woman is strength. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being. — John De Ruiter

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. — Stephen Gardiner

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.
("The Accursed Cordonnier") — Bernard Capes

Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart. — Pablo Neruda

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them. — Jose Rizal

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. — Naomi Klein

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty. — Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

Such delicacies are relationships. — Pawan Mishra

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

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character. — Lydia Sigourney