Quotes About Delicacy

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Life is like a snowflake—transient, translucent, adventurous, ephemeral, and beautiful.

A true lover is like a flower.

Hope with deep driving desires is an order of the most delicious delicacy in a restaurant we call the universe.

I'm just here to remind you that every human life is a bold and delicate projection of the eternal into the temporal.

Life is a dancing dew drop on the tip of a leaf.

It is at the edge of the petal that love waits

The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

Fragility comes in many forms

Definition of the Word Delicate, Since Defining Delicacy Isn't Enough for Understanding Delicacy 1. Subtle and subdued. A delicate flavor. 2. Showing fragility. Delicate crystal. 3. Requiring sensitive or careful handling. Delicate situation. 4. Characterized by subtle judgment, deftness. Delicate chess maneuvers.

But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty.

A Springfield "horseshoe" was an often grotesque open-faced sandwich in which a piece of meat was covered first with french fries and then with a cheeselike sauce. Visitors knowledgeable enough to avoid the local delicacy felt rightfully proud. The statement that Springfield was a city of "bad hotels and worse food" was perhaps apocryphal, but there was no shortage of bars, because drinking was state politicos' top recreational activity.

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After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.