Quotes About Subtlety

Red lipstick aside, I firmly believe that less is more in terms of make-up.

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

One of the main lessons of bioelectromagnetism so far is that less is often more.

I'm an educated man: the prisons I know are subtle ones. And of course poetry and prison have always been neighbors. And yet it's melancholia that's the source of my attraction.

When you do things in a soft way, you make the other people believe they've thought up something to do for you, when actually you're directing them." Later, Ruth

Rockefeller worked by subtle hints, doling out praise sparingly to employees and nudging them along.

there's always something in miso soup

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

He was not tall, but the fingers that held his hat against his overcoat were exceptionally long and thin. She saw how they moved one at a time against the dark brown felt, pressing themselves against the fabric almost imperceptibly, like a pulse under the skin. The way a child's fingers might move in sleep.

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She

I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?" "Beautiful?" said Miss Bartlett, puzzled at the word. "Are not beauty and delicacy the same?" "So one would have thought," said the other helplessly. "But things are so difficult, I sometimes think.

sky. Those elms were Dryads—so Rickie believed or pretended, and the line between the two is subtler than we admit.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

Es impresionante la fuerza que ejerce en nosotros la sugestión. Basta que una se se proponga ser lo más natural posible para que cada ademán y cada movimiento se carguen de artificios.