Quotes About Delicacy

A feather on a breeze," Wash said, then frowned. "Something like that, at any rate. There may be a better analogy.

This was one of those occasions when discretion was the better part of not getting your face bashed in.

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

almost exquisite, the slight madness

even when I leaned in as far as I dared without being obvious

Her ears, lightly fringed with white that looked silver, lifted and moved, back, forward, listening and sensing. Her face turned, slightly, after each new sensation, alert. Her tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears -- everything, in delicate vibration.

she spent many hours whirling around trying to catch the monarch butterflies that floated among the milkweed and chokecherries. When she caught them, she cupped them in her hands and smelled them, as if they were flowers. When she released them, some would drop to earth traumatized or crushed, while others flew off in a spiraling panic while she watched, her hands and nose dusted with the orange powder from their wings.

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.

Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

Many a Gallic treat is based on a hearty dose of butter.

I'm always careful in generalising things.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

sole à la normande

Take some jelly and a fish

Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.