Top 187 Subtlety Quotes & Sayings

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.

Make subtlety obvious.

She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

A fox is subtlety itself.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

If you've ever watched a television cartoon, you know that kids don't appreciate subtlety, though perhaps that's because they're not often offered it.

There's definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.

There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.

Subtlety doesn't work with kids.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

With Dawn I was afraid people would just think it's a B-movie and I didn't know what I was doing. That's really what I was afraid of. Like the subtlety of the movie they would miss. If the movie succeeds, it's that people understand the subtlety. That they're able to see past the conventions of what they think a movie is and go a teeny bit deeper and let it be both.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.

I don't think it's any secret that the bigger the venue, the subtlety and artfulness of comedy declines.

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

In Kerala, people are more educated, so you can have subtlety in Malayalam films.

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

I like subtlety, blending in as opposed to screaming out 'look at me' with the way I dress.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

I love Tokio Hotel and their music, their makeup, their hairstyles and their subtlety.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.