Quotes About Brittle

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It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside—just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman: it is, at once, the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

little creatures they were who seemed to have been blown from glass.

We will never be together. Sweetheart. I am too brittle, hidden, and snappish, and you are too married. You are altogether too married.

It's no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

But expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

sic friatur crustum dulce

The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them.

You can't patch cracks on a glass house.

Only two towers remained standing, one of which was so crooked and damaged it looked ready to topple at a cough from a butterfly.

His brittle, yellowed bones were splintered, crushed and shattered.

We are all glass soldiers.

Ays felt as if he was made of glass, some brittle substance, and the laughter cracked him. He felt the power of his skill drain out from his body, out like thin, rancid liquour down through the cracks on the floor.

Innocence is attractive in children but it makes brittle, disappointed adults.

What they all knew was this: Life was fragile.

The rhythms of American popular music are more or less brittle; they should be made to snap, and at times to crackle. The more sharply the music is played, the more effective it sounds.

She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

shattered like old glass

she looked fragile enough that she might shatter if touched.