Top 189 Delicacy Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.
Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism
The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.
Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
I like to play the lute full-bloodedly, with passion, as well as with delicacy and, I hope, refinement.
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
Are not beauty and delicacy the same?
Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.
the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Delicacy in woman is strength.
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
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.
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
