Quotes About Delicacy

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretence, we escape by attributing bitterness, impatience, intemperance, to our adversaries.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.

He looked as if he were anxiously balancing a large handful of tact, without quite knowing where to put it down.

Violets – how precious on a mountain path.

Even badly drawn a morning glory will be charming

The butterfly perfuming it's wings fans the orchid - Matsuo Basho

la période des fêtes c'est plus délicat, il aurait fallu un plateau de fruits de mer, or ce sont là des choses qui se partagent, un plateau de fruits de mer en solitaire c'est une expérience ultime, même Françoise Sagan n'aurait pas pu décrire cela, c'est vraiment trop gore.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.