Delicacy Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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

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

The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.

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

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

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

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

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

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

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

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.

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.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.