Quotes About Delicacy

sterlet in a silvery chafing dish, sterlet slices interlaid with crayfish tails and fresh caviar? And eggs en cocotte with mushroom purée in little dishes? And how did you like the fillets of thrush? With truffles? Quail à la génoise?

mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

When she's sweet.When she's petite.When she's pretty.She's my color pink!

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.

mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata. (Mem., get recipe for this also.)

The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it's like cotton—and like silk, too. Indeed, there's nothing lovelier.

Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

As if all of us existed only in the bondage of the will From inside each autonomy grows the light of grace; when it is not murderous; as if the Graces existed, were alive, in their ambiguity, their infinite delicacy . . .

No one, not even the rain has such soft hands.

there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

She was touched by his delicacy, by the way he stared fiercely at his sheet of paper, perhaps trying to hear in advance his poem through her ears.

Her face looked like it would shatter any second.

There's this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address.

How fragile she had appeared, so breakable, in her borrowed finery and painted child's face.

To express ingratitude was to risk taunting fate; we were all afraid of that, aware of the delicacy of our disregard.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

I like Dover sole. It's always one of my favorites. I like it when I'm in England. I eat it every day almost. I think it's probably one of my favorite fish.

I tend to think some things are off-limits. Not in the sense that you should not be able to say them, but you need some care about how and when you go into them. If you wanted to make a joke about concentration camps you should think twice. At least twice.

She is the fragrance of a dozen jasmines.

I'm sorry I broke you. It's just that you're so pretty, and I break pretty things.

Some people are like the fragrance of flowers!