Quotes about Subtlety
I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.
- Virginia Woolf
I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
- Virginia Woolf
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
- Lao Tzu
Not to put too fine a point upon it.
- Charles Dickens
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
- Harry S. Truman
Details are always vulgar
- Oscar Wilde
The difference was in the details.
- Dale Carnegie
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
- William Faulkner
Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.
- Mortimer Adler
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
- John Milton
Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
- Victor Hugo
In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.
- Victor Hugo