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.

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

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

Delicacy in woman is strength.

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

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?

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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