Delicate Quotes

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

Miss Lynn came around the corner of the row of lockers,glaring daggers. No, daggers would be too delicate a weapon for her.Glaring sledgehammers was probably more appropriate.

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

I don't like seeing her this delicate.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

I do have a delicate side.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.