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Tag Name "Exquisite" (185)

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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
Anne Lamott
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Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.
Hugh Laurie
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
Jonathan Edwards
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The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.
David Hawkins
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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
Andre Maurois
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A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
Zoe Akins
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There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.
Lucas Malet
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
Anton Chekhov
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock
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AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
Kevin Smith
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie Gallagher
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If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.
Woody Allen
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Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
Robert C. Solomon
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There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.
Kevin Spacey
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I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.
Bill Nye
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
Eric Whitacre
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu
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There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.
Jack London
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Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.
William Safire
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The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
James Ensor
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