A Quote by James Montgomery

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

James Montgomery

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Exquisite Joys Last More Past Too

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James Montgomery
British - Poet
November 4, 1771 - April 30, 1854

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Philibert Joseph Roux

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Joseph Roux

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

Tom Stoppard

Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent.

Liz W. Garcia

But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

Fernando Flores

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

D. H. Lawrence

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

Peter De Vries

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire

The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

Jack London

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.