Quotes and Sayings About Delicacy
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Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
-- Alan Coren -
Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
-- Anthony Santasiere -
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
-- Charlotte Mary Yonge -
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
-- Clement Freud -
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.
-- Clifford Allbutt -
Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
-- Elton Gallegly -
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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.
-- Gail Carriger -
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.
-- George Eliot -
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
-- Gustav Mahler -
Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism
-- Henning Eichberg -
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical or physical methods; they are inadequate to its refinement and delicacy and complexity.
-- Herbert Spencer Jennings -
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
-- Horace Bushnell -
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
-- Horace Walpole -
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.
-- Horace Walpole -
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
-- Jean Genet -
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
-- Jean Paul -
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
-- John Evelyn -
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.
-- John Herschel -
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
-- Jonathan Swift -
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
-- Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando -
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
-- Marie Corelli -
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.
-- Naomi Klein -
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
-- Novalis -
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
-- Ouida -
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
