Quotes About Subtlety

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Fragrance should be discovered, not announced.

Far better, he decides, to keep one's presence small, inconspicuous.

Like Caesar, he was loyal but with this difference: he liked to do good by stealth, behind the scenes.

Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant. Being thus able to manage me, she was equal to coping with the butler.

And before you interrupt me, Colin, you're probably one of them. He had you twisted round his little finger.

I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.

I don't like flashy things.

I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or the talking.

The subtlety of your visual attention. You could alert me or change the subject with a contraction of your iris.

Cleo touched Sarah's head. "Cross your arms on the table and sleep awhile." Sarah did as she was told, wishing they could leave. Cleo obviously wasn't ready to leave. She seemed to be having a good time, and she kept staring at Merrick and smiling in a way Sarah had never seen her smile before.

Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process.

He was aware now of many things—of statecraft and profound consequences in the smallest decisions. Yet he felt this knowledge and subtlety as a thin veneer covering an iron core of simpler, more deterministic awareness. And that older core called out to him, pleaded with him for a return to cleaner values.

Not at all, Lady Fenring said. She turned, looking up at the tiers around them. And the Baron noted the line of her neck- a truly lovely flowing of muscles- like a young boy's.

You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in the Royal Creche. Subtlety and self-control were, after all, the most deadly threats to us all.

Subtlety and self-control were, after all

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.