Quotes About Subtlety

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.