Quotes About Delicate

Aveva comunque il fascino di certi tisici: lineamenti delicati, pelle trasparente, labbra sensuali e insieme beffarde.

Mr Comyn gathered up his hand and began to sort the cards. I must thank you, I suppose, but anything in the nature of irregularity, or clandestine conduct, is distasteful to me - especially in this delicate affair. Then you shouldn't ally yourself with my family, replied his lordship.

But the thing is that it has provided Mrs Scorrier with a pretext for saying what, I own, has quite sunk my spirits. She told me that Charlotte has a horror of *deformity*, which makes her wish that just now, when she is in a delicate situation, it might have been possible for Aubrey to visit friends.

I'd forgotten how tiny new babies are.

Cream is actually tiny globules of fat held inside delicate membranes suspended in water - just like milk, only there are more globules.

This web of lies was growing so convoluted, so branching, and so delicate that a moth's fart might knock it to pieces—

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

It's as mild as goose-milk.

His hair is like feathers.

It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

All we seem to be left with now is paranoid gibberish about a War on Terror whose whole purpose is to expand the War, increase the Terror, and obfuscate the fact that the wars of today are not aberrations but systemic, logical exercises to preserve a way of life whose delicate pleasures and exquisite comforts can only be delivered to the chosen few by a continuous, protracted war for hegemony--Lifestyle Wars.

it was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

The Hallelujahs are a lovely visual concept, ins in part by the Huang Shan Mountains of China, specta karst limestone formations that themselves look too deli vertical to exist.

Memories are the precious moments wrapped in delicate ribbon. The ones kept dear are beautifully woven around our heart, the ones that don't hold the beauty of the ribbon, unties itself naturally.

Much of the skepticism Schrödinger's claim attracted at the time was rooted in the general belief that delicate quantum states couldn't possibly survive in the warm, wet and busy molecular environments inside living organisms

All babies look like currant buns to me.

La belleza de Palmera era belleza pensativa: Como la de los lirios. Lo cual no quiere decir que ella acostumbrase a pensar, pues tampoco los lirios acostumbran pensar y, sin embargo, su belleza es pensativa.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Unfortunate," "rather worrying," "most critical": these were delicate British euphemisms for what one officer described as "near-panic.

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

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I don't like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.