Quotes About Subtlety

there's a very well-known method for getting women, everybody knows it, it's not to say a word.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

I rolled my eyes. "You have all the subtlety of a melodrama heroine," I informed him. "And the endurance of a particularly tiny sea slug. Where is your spirit, sir? Where is your grit?" "In my other trousers," he said, his jaws clenched.

Nice can have an edge.

Magic is in simplicity. Simplicity is the ultimate expression of beauty.

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.

To those who would argue, correctly, that the teachings of the East offer deeper, richer levels of subtlety and sophistication than the more youthful and boisterous Americans, I'd reply that waking up is a youthful, boisterous business and that those who seek ever deeper layers of understanding are merely fulfilling ego's agenda of stagnation and self-preservation.

woman is most beautiful when she is herself. The Japanese call it a beauty with 'inner implications.' It's not a show-off kind of thing, some peacock display of clothes and makeup and demeanor. It's quiet. Subtle. And here's the most interesting thing: Shibui relies on the ones looking at a person or an object to make something for themselves out

Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women, both in cognitive speculation, demonstrated in writing, and in the arts, manifested in manual works of labor. I will give you plenty of examples. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies 1405

By which I mean that he saw in commonplace events the movement of greater tides than others saw.

having had the gleam taken out of her to the point where she resembles twilight

Mount Shady is a lovely town, but it's also homogenous and boring, and boredom dulls your ability to make the right decisions. Boredom creeps up on you slowly, wraps its tendrils around you and tugs at you in such a subtle yet constant way, you'll do anything to escape it. You'll behave recklessly and stupidly. You'll trust the wrong people, with disastrous results. Emily would still be alive if we'd stayed in New York.

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club's worth of speeches.

I never wear too much jewelry. I never wear a ton of pattern. Sometimes I'll go big, but it never feels right.

When I do my own makeup, I limit my options: I have one Mac eye colour, a neutral shade with a bit of shimmer, plus eyeliner and subtle mascara. I wear a little foundation and put Laura Mercier concealer around my nose, underneath my eyes and on any dark spots.

I don't really wear lipstick.

I love wearing very simple colours.

Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not wearing brand names. It's about being invisible, almost. The billionaire can be taking the bus with you.

If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.