Delicacy Quotes

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

Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a delicacy. He was as cool as he could be, and ate dirty socks.

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

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

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.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

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.

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

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.

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

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

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.

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.

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

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

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

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

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

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.

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

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

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

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

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

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

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.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

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

What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier")

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark, inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror.

Such delicacies are relationships.