Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
...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.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.?
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
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.