Exquisite Quotes - page 7

At this exquisite vision Tip's old comrades stared in wonder for the space of a full minute, and then every head bent low in honest admiration of the lovely Princess Ozma. The girl herself cast one look into Glinda's bright face, which glowed with pleasure and satisfaction, and then turned upon the others. Speaking the words with sweet diffidence, she said: "I hope none of you will care less for me than you did before. I'm just the same Tip, you know; only - only - " "Only you're different!" (L. Frank Baum)
The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. View quote
Steven Pinker
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. View quote
John Millington Synge
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. View quote
George Santayana
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all. View quote
John Cleese
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity. View quote
William Safire
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense. View quote
Hermann Hesse
But they believed the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. View quote
Ann Coulter
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance. View quote
Adrienne Rich
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. (Ram Dass)
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people. . . . The Japanese people are. . . simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong,- Like angels' visits, short and bright; Mortality 's too weak to bear them long. View quote
John Norris
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. View quote
Joseph Roux
The enormous and half-educated publics of present-day England and America... acclaim as masterpieces books that are soon forgotten, while ignoring all that is exquisite and rare. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary. (Amitav Ghosh)
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the Sea, For lovely and bright and gay tinted are we, And quite independent of sun's fire or showers- Then call us not weeds! We are ocean's bright flowers, Not nursed like the plants of a summer parterre, Where gales are but sighs of an evening air, Our exquisite, fragile and delicate forms Are nursed by the Ocean and rocked by the Storms. View quote
Petar Beron
The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found to this uniform law of nature. View quote
David Hume
Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms-his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought-making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share-it smashed to atoms. View quote
Virginia Woolf