Quotes About Subtlety

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle.

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very pronounced, and as a rule witty or deceitful. I propose to use the word in an extended sense, and shall think relevant to my subject any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language.

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

With headphones on, you can hear and appreciate extreme detail and subtlety, and the lack of uncontrollable reverb inherent in hearing music in a live room means that rhythmic material survives beautifully and completely intact; it doesn't get blurred or turned into sonic mush as it often does in a concert hall.

Après leur dernier échange, il était parti lentement. Sans faire de bruit. Aussi discret qu'un point-virgule dans un roman de huit cents pages.

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

Tact is good taste in action.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, "We did this ourselves.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.