Delicate Quotes
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The charming grass, elegant water, fascinating winds, admirable rocks and delicate sands are never alone.
— Delano Johnson
She looks clumsy, beautiful. It's a beauty that could pierce the most delicate regions of the heart of the viewer.
— Haruki Murakami
Being happy and being able to look yourself in the mirror while doing it is a delicate balance.
— Jessica Ingro
A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.
— Henry David Thoreau
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.
— William Wordsworth
It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
— Raymond Chandler
The way she felt almost delicate when she was pressed up against him like this. Almost fragile. Almost safe. Almost like a princess.
— Marissa Meyer
My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.
— Jean Moulin
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
— Milton Friedman
I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.
— Alanis Morissette
Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.
— Joseph Chenier
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.
— Nicole Trunfio
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
— Catharine Beecher
You know men. We have delicate egos.
— Cassandra Clare
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
— William Faulkner
To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.
— Frederick Lenz
Unless was a sword held carefully by the blade. A single slip and all the delicate designs could fall apart in a clatter of severed fingers.
— Sean DeLauder
I do have a delicate side.
— Michelle Rodriguez
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
— Martha Graham
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.
— Henry David Thoreau
The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.
— Khaled Hosseini
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
— Bayard Taylor
Friendship is far more delicate than love.
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
— Honore De Balzac
I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love. — Anna Akhmatova
[Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.]
— Tennessee Williams
Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.
— David Foenkinos
I abhor violence. How many times do I have to say it? I am a delicate. Freakn'. Flower!
— Eve Langlais
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
— Natalie Portman
As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
— Damien Chazelle
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
— Evelyn Underhill
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
— William Wordsworth
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
— Stellan Skarsgard
This son of mine..is entirely sophisticated and quite charming- but delicate- we're all delicate; here, you know.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Delicate petals Flow open to receive me Sweetest kiss of all Holy
— Delphine Dryden
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance
— Thom Yorke
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush.
— Melissa Marr
Beginnings are such delicate times.
— Frank Herbert
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments the mind of a little child! — Henry Handel Richardson
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Christian is staring at us. He's an only child and could never understand the delicate joys of sibling abuse.
— Cynthia Hand
Gloves make you so much more delicate.
— Karine Vanasse
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
— Madame De Stael
I wouldn't describe it like that. It was . . . hazardous and delicate. I've had easier times disarming explosives . . .
— Amy A. Bartol
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
— Cornel West
Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble!
— Preeth Nambiar
No delicate breeze brings comfort with icy breath of windto the hearts which pant on the flames. — Seneca.
There is no room in war for delicate machinery.
— Archibald Wavell
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time.
— Kristin Bartley Lenz
I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Upon the delicate chin you turnedVenus had set her cloven sign.
Like embers seen through darkest wine
Your unextinguished tresses burned. — Clark Ashton Smith
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Claws." She pointed to her pussy. "Delicate bits." She shook her finger at him. "So not chocolate and peanut butter.
— Dana Marie Bell
Why do You thus devise
Evil against her?' 'For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore. — Adelaide Crapsey
The soul is soft, beautiful, delicate, fun-loving, and always blooming. To nurture the soul, it needs sunshine and unconditional self-love.
— Debasish Mridha
The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.
— Robert H. Jackson
Her mother walk all the way back to their car, hand in hand, like two jewels on a delicate strand that might at any moment be broken.
— Jodi Picoult
I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude.
— Arthur Symons
Safe? Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.
— Patricia Lynne
A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.
— Charles Rollin
