Quotes About Subtlety

it was a deeper, deadlier, and more subtle hypocrisy than that, and a little honest sensuality, or a lot, would have been like water in an extremely bitter desert.

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

I love dresses that just skim the body, that suggest what's underneath rather than display it.

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

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.

Beauty lies in simplicity.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

When I go out, I just put on a little mascara - Chanel is my favourite - and fragrance. I actually apply fragrance right out of the shower - I spray and walk through it so it's not too overpowering.

More than the length, it's the meat of the character that is more important. It does not matter if you are on screen, standing in the corner for the whole film, as opposed to doing something that stands out in two scenes.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

Psychoanalysis, it seems, does wonders for a man's prose style: it renders it labyrinthine without subtlety.) There is no place, then, for human agency, except the kind that leads you to talk about yourself in the presence of another for twenty years. Shallowness can go no deeper.

To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }