Top 35 Delicacy Quotes

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

Meetings should be great – they’re opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing. And it is, but only if treated as a rare delicacy.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it’s delicious.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we’ve misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

I don’t need jewels and cars. It’s about the delicacy of the way I’m handled.

Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep’s stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.

Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.

Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play – the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

I like to play the lute full-bloodedly, with passion, as well as with delicacy and, I hope, refinement.

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.

Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in the state apparatus, of their approach either to work or to dealing with the public.

A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew – often served, like chipped beef, over toast – that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s.

I feel particularly passionate about being a part of ‘Rillington Place’ because I’ve never had a job where I’ve felt so much responsibility and I’ve had to handle something with so much delicacy, because this story and these people were real.

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!