Quotes About Subtlety

Yes, money talked—loudly—and Gideon had tons of it. But he conveyed command and control with subtle actions. I recognized that after living with Nathan's father, my mom's first husband, who'd wielded power like a blunt instrument.

I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.

What's the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackiest garage sale painting you ever saw. Really, it's so beautiful it's embarrassing. No subtlety whatsoever.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

Temía sobre todo la forma más sutil de la gratitud que se vuelve cariño canino.

Toliko sam kofera zatvorio u životu, tolike sate proveo pakuju?i prtljag sa kojim nikada nisam putovao, da je ?etvrtak bio dan pun senki i remenja, jer kad vidim remenje za kofere kao da vidim senke, delove nekog bi?a koji me šiba posredno, na najsuptilniji i najužasniji na?in.

Receava, particularmente, a forma mais sutil da gratidão, que se torna carinho canino; não queria que a liberdade, a única roupa que caía bem na Maga, se perdesse numa feminilidade diligente.

y Rema que tocaba un caracol con la punta del dedo, tan delicadamente que también su dedo tenía algo de caracol.

The way you walk is slash and burn. Like understatement's now a crime.

En percevant l'usage subtil de l'inutile, il est entré dans le royaume de l'art.

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.

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

The productions of the mind and hand seem very numerous in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known, not in the number of axioms. VIII

It is great cleverness to know when to conceal ones cleverness.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.

Less is only more where more is no good.

The Pin is mightier than the sword

He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece . True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.

He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety. In this book, Gaotona found a rare work to rival that of the greatest painters, sculptors, and poets of any era. It was the greatest work of art he had ever witnessed. Gaotona