Delicacy Quotes
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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
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
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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
— Robertson Davies
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
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
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
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
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
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— Charles Dickens
...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.
— Hannah Mary Rothschild
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
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
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
Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
— Thomas Jefferson
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
— James Broughton
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[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
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
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— 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
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
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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[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
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— Charles Dickens
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itselfif I may be allowed the expression
than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville
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
