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Quotes About Exquisiteness

Beauty always takes place in the particular.
~ Elaine Scarry
One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others.
~ Jennifer Egan
One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others. There are so many boys in the world.
~ Jennifer Egan
One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others. There are so many boys in the world. From a distance they look alike even to her, especially in uniform.
~ Jennifer Egan
A horror so refined
~ Emily Dickinson
Tout ce qu'il y avait de plus fin.
~ Gabrielle Roy
She was alone with beauty. She was passionately realizing the moment, its fleeting exquisiteness, its still, fragile beauty. So exquisite it was, so frail and so transitory, that she could have wept, even as she clasped it close. To savor the loveliness of moments, to bathe in them as in a wine-gold, sun-warmed sea, and then to pass on to the next - that was life.
~ Rose Macaulay
I am a thing of beauty.
~ Frank Sinatra
The Beautiful is always strange.
~ Charles Baudelaire
She is loveliness itself.
~ Jane Austen
are like sherry in crystal, and
~ Diana Gabaldon