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Tag Name "Delicacy" (104)

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True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.
Mary Howitt
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... 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.
Virginia Woolf
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
Anatole France
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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.
Wallace Stegner
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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
Robert Bly
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I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!
Deborah Sampson
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
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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
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Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Margaret of Valois
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
Thomas Jefferson
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When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.
Frederick C. Beiser
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Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Fanny Burney
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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.
Sophie Swetchine
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Stephen Gardiner
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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In a bouquet of mixed roses, most people can distinguish at a glance the delicacy of a tea rose from the voluptuousness of a cabbage rose, but how many could so readily differentiate between the tea rose's scent of freshly harvested tea and the spicy, honeylike, rich floral scent of the cabbage?
Mandy Aftel
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.
Richard Lloyd
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Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
Alan Coren
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True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
James Broughton
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
Elton Gallegly
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