Delicate Quotes - Page 12

• Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Real, Taste, Littles

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132

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• A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.

  Charles Rollin

  Flower, Mind

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• Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and health to the complexion of thought be resolved into its elements. Stop there. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Blood, Imagination, Giving

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• 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?

  Jane Austen

  Care, Plant, Should

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1082, Ageless Reads

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• They [Throne; legacy costumes] are made out of foam latex, which is basically what prosthetic makeup is made out of. So it's very delicate and very fragile. And then you put the electronics in there and you have a whole other level of fragility. So we had many suits and sometimes we would have to change out at lunchtime and send the other one to the "suit-hospital." It was like a surgery centre.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Makeup, Levels, Electronics

  Source: www.tribute.ca

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• What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Eggshells, Break

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.607, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

  Jodi Picoult

  Silence, Heavy, Beads

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• William: I just had the best idea ever. Let's give Maddox a ring. Paris: You mean propose to him? To grumpy ole Maddox? Willie, why didn't you tell us you're a masochist, who swung that way? You're so delicate, he'll rip you to shreds the moment you climb into his bed. Plus, he's hitched himself to Ashlyn. You try to lay a move on him, and that sweet thang will rearrange your face. William: I mean call him, you idiot. What's with you tonight? Permanent brain damage? We'll breath heavily and ask him what he's wearing. I bet no one's phone sexed him before.

  Gena Showalter

  Sweet, Rip, Moving

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• Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Mean, Succeed

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• Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ocean, Sea, Bird

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.11, Hueber Verlag

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• I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Rotten, Wonderful

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.56, Courier Dover Publications

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• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Two, Silence, Would Be

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Soccer, Football

  Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

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• A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Girl, Teenage, Fall

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• Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Flower, Voice, Office

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Taken, Heart, Gun

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• One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Sweet, Regret, Kissing

  Sharon M. Draper (2011). “The Battle of Jericho”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Vella looked around. "This is really a revolting place, Yarblek," she told him. "You've been spending too much time with Porenn," he said. "You're starting to get delicate." "How would you like to have me gut you?" she offered. "That's my girl.

  David Eddings

  Girl, Too Much, Starting

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• The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Beautiful, Flower

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Uglies”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Dream, Littles, Ballerina

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm finding none. It's the same thing! It's about rhythms and beats and what connects to what. It's the same; the song has to connect to the story to get from this point to that point. So even though there may not be music in the show there is. You have to follow this delicate score. I don't think there's a huge difference. But, I don't have sore muscles! I'm not sore from dancing all day!

  Kendra Kassebaum

  Song, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• They [Mark and Jay Duplass] both have young kids and talk about parenting all the time. So they get it. So they knew that it was a very delicate time and they knew that it was a lot. All it did was make me want to protect them from - and protect production from - any kind of burden.

  Amanda Peet

  Kids, Want, Kind

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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

  Ronee Blakley

  Insane, Lines, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Flower, Scent, Produce

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.406, MIRA

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