Quotes About Delicacy

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.

The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child

To be 'subderisorious' consists of 'scoffing or ridiculing with tenderness and delicacy'—at the expense of an amatorculist, for instance.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

La mano di lei era appoggiata sul suo braccio come neve su una foglia, pronta a scivolare via quando si fosse mosso.

Die Schafe schwiegen beeindruckt. Übernatürlich! Noch natürlicher als natürlich! Gras was natürlich, Kraftfutter nicht ganz so natürlich, und Plastik was gar nicht natürlich und fast ungenießbar. Etwas Übernatürliches hingegen mußte eine wahre Delikatesse sein!

For years I have been a prisoner of the people of the set now called the Watchers. These great hypnotists have no idols, their magic is powerful and their appetite insatiable. They thrive on misery, but have great delicacy in choosing their victims. They evoke compassion but have none themselves. They possess unlimited knowledge but have no understanding, and this gives them the power of absolute, concentrated hate.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.

Existo. Es algo tan dulce, tan dulce, tan lento. Y leve; como si se mantuviera solo en el aire. Se mueve. Por todas partes, roces que caen y se desvanecen. Muy suave, muy suave

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

One thing that's hard for me to resist is street food. I know it is the unhealthiest option, but even with all the oil, nothing can beat tikkis.

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

And is it right butterfly? They like you better framed and dried.

Super Squirrel (écureuil dans une Sauce Rouillée)

Nothing makes a better gravy than several fresh squirrels–and squirrels are so small that it does take several to make even a few servings.

These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them?

Kezia had the satiny delicacy of her mother and the sheer strength of her father.

And I realize how faulty were my own perceptions, how clumsily I handled the situation, with what lack of wit and with what ineffectiveness did I deal with Nathan at a moment when supreme delicacy was called for… far from my mind was any idea that Nathan might be disturbed. I thought he was merely being a colossal prick. I regarded Nathan's outburst as a shocking failure of character, a lapse of decency, rather than the product of some aberration of mind.

I'm afraid they would droop. See, they're drooping already. Bluebells are like that.

le spalle simili al bianco cuore di un fiore. [...]

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