Exquisite Quotes
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Simon and Schuster
Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”
There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.
"The Star Rover".
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1058, Delphi Classics
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline (Annotated Student's Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag
"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean". TV Series, 1990.
Letter to Alexander Ireland, 2 June 1848, on receiving 'a glorious batch of 'Examiners", in 'The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt' (1862) vol. 2, p. 122
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1878). “The Gates Ajar”
Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.196, Vintage