Subtle Quotes - Page 39

• Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

  Anthony Trollope

  Essence, Credit, May

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works”, p.33, 谷月社

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• The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Gossip, Tea, Age

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• love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Love Is, Essence, Fever

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.344, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.

  Guy Pearce

  Home, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

  Dale Carnegie

  Heart, People, Way

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.92, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.

  Chuck Jones

  Expression, Eyebrows, Action

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• Satan is certainly not subtle in his teachings; why should we be? Whether we are instructing our children at home or standing before an audience in church, let us never make our faith difficult to detect.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Teaching, Home

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• When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Attitude, Butterfly, Iron

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels”, Gramercy

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• The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  David O. McKay

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Best Effort

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• Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Creative, Feelings

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, People, Naked

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.366, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Well Known, Conviction

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Coarse, Impression, Mediums

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheist, Real, Lying

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• The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Moral Fiber, Welfare Programs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.

  Ray Stevenson

  Character, Knowing, Hook

  Source: collider.com

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• Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

  Russell Kirk

  Civilization, Intellectual, Together

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• It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

  Herman Melville

  Whales, Silent, Caught

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.268

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• The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Devil

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• I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Taken, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt

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• There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

  Sylvester Stallone

  Kindness, Age, Weakness

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Joy, Enlightenment, Littles

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.

  Kay Panabaker

  Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

  John Lennon

  Important, Males, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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