Delicate Quotes

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.