Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Delicacy in woman is strength.
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.
Are not beauty and delicacy the same?
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.
Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.