Quotes about Delicate
Every body part deserves to be remembered. Every human body deserves to last. It is an outrage that it's so fragile, so delicate. It is an outrage that it's permitted to disintegrate underground, or given the mercy of flames, burned like trash.
- Olga Tokarczuk
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
- Isaiah 47:1
Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
- Jeremiah 6:2
...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...
- George Eliot
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.... these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The disposition of everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?
- Charles Dickens
Tryphena?" "It's Greek. Means 'delicate.' Brin came across it the other day somewhere in the Bible,
- Steven James
What would it look like to live in awe of every moment? To really, really see the terrible splendor, the delicate wonder of life?
- Steven James
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
- Evelyn Underhill
It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.
- Victor Hugo
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.
- William Wordsworth
It went without saying that trying to convince an aging, embattled despot to ride off into the sunset, even if it was in his own interests, would be a delicate operation
- Barack Obama