Quotes About Exquisite

They use the word nice not synonymously with agreeable, attractive, or pleasant—qualities they strongly favor—but in an older sense, meaning fastidiously careful, delicate, precise, or overly refined. Too much of this kind of nice looks wrong to them, like a farmer mowing hay in a tuxedo.

Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never know full possession which disappoints by its very completeness. O what joy to be able to postpone the fulfillment of desire to infinity!

that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—

There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

It was so much more exquisite to long for somebody than to have her there beside him.

I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

The overall effect made Vos like a falcon poised in that exquisite instant between free fall and flight, and for a moment he couldn't breath.

No es la flor más perfecta y adorable? —preguntó Arya. Eragon la miró, con una exquisita conciencia de lo cerca que estaban en aquel momento, y dijo: —Sí... Lo es. —Sin dar tiempo a que lo abandonara el coraje, añadió—: Como tú.

It's so beautiful.

exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.

Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, where nothing is complete.

For a terrible, exquisite moment, time stopped between them, the world caught its breath.

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.

It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

She asked in a hesitant whisper, "Do you still think i'm a... A singularly unhorrible demon?" "No," he said smiling. "I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And..." His voice grew bashful. Only in a dream could he be so bold and speak such words. "I hope you'll let me be in your story.

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And…" His voice grew bashful. Only in a dream could he be so bold and speak such words. "I hope you'll let me be in your story.

She beckoned me to follow her, and we passed from the portico into rooms whose magnificence has stolen the words from the mouths of the poets.

It involved Melisande, and the razor-sharp blades they call flechettes, and a good deal of me screaming ... I have dreams about it still, and Elua help me, some of them are exquisite.

That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.

Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.