Quotes About Subtle

Ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato…. To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Her dismissive skill was subtle and brutal, sometimes no more than a thin smile, a watery upward look or an amused intake of breath, a scanning cauterizing instrument which rendered any endeavor puny or extravagantly indulgent . Her son was her prize victim.

subtle yet powerful role of analogy in persuasion. Because while they often operate unnoticed, analogies aren't accidents, they're arguments—arguments that, like icebergs, conceal most of their mass and power beneath the surface. In many arguments, whoever has the best analogy wins.

It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface:

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

his expression was always one of gentle hopelessness.

The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy, I can almost hear him saying

Edith's strategy became more indirect, more quiet and contained.

It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...

Thoughts do not need the wings of words to fly to any goal, Like subtle lightnings, not like birds, They speed from soul to soul.

Some of her turned to mist, and crept out the pores of her skin.

Every friendship is an inconspicuous drama, a series of subtle wounds.

A small revolution was taking place, so modest and well behaved that almost no one had noticed.

gentle curves that had not been

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Oh, that was smooth. I'm as subtle as a fart.

When the snow falls with that supernatural slowness it has, it seems that the reasons for dying are more subtle than the reasons for living. But perhaps these latter are more numerous.

The directors whose films scare me the most, are the ones who carefully hide the aggression in the background, and don't show it directly.

I've never been very flashy or high-profile.

There are moments of exaltation and ecstasy when our thoughts become, in a way, more pure, more subtle, more ethereal. These rare moments raise us up so high, carry us so far out of ourselves, that when we fall back to earth we lose the consciousness and the memory of that intellectual intoxication. Who can understand the anchorite's mysterious visions? Who can relate the dreams of the poet before his emotion has cooled so that he can write them down for us?

Tell him that I shan't interfere in any way! I shall, of course, but he will never know it, so you needn't scruple to say that, dearest!

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine whether they're actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.

I've always been very progressive and as much as I play Old World music, I have this progressive tenacity to keep adding futuristic elements in subtle ways where you won't notice.