Delicate Quotes

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. (Rodney Dangerfield)
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. View quote
Giambattista Vico
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. View quote
George Stigler
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things. View quote
Frances Burney
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit touch it, and the bloom is gone. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain. View quote
Lima Barreto
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. (William Wordsworth)
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy. View quote
William Wordsworth
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion. View quote
Nick Bostrom
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle. . . View quote
Charles Dickens
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions. View quote
Tony Kushner
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching. View quote
Ivan Reitman
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter. View quote
John Hay
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it. View quote
Daniel Tammet
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. (George Eliot)
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. View quote
Johann Gottfried Herder
While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance. View quote
Thom Yorke
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. View quote
Emil Cioran