Delicacy Quotes - Page 2

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

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?

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

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

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

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

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

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

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

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

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

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

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

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

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

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.

A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical or physical methods; they are inadequate to its refinement and delicacy and complexity.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

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

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

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

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