Quotes About Delicacy

A good cut of steak is always a go-to splurge.

I will walk on eggs.

Nothing should be noticed.

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.

They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent.

He crouched down, and carefully put his finger through the thorns into the round door of the nest. It's almost as if you were feeling inside the live body of the bird, he said... After that, Miriam came to see it everyday. It seemed so close to her. Again, going down the hedge side with the girl, he noticed the celandines, scalloped slashes of gold, on the side of the ditch. I like them, he said, when their petals go flat back with the sunshine. They seem to be pressing themselves at the sun.

It is ham; there is no such thing as Canadian bacon.

crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Something about the way she moved through the world did not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

The tougher you are, the more fragile.

Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet.

To the daisy — the poet's darling.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

This needed to be handled with finesse, but you have all the finesse of the Hulk on meth.

You're a marshmallow, Carmelita.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

She is loveliness itself.

He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence, because it was witheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him.

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.

No, Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English. He may be very 'aimable,' have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people: nothing really amiable about him.