Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.
I'm with the president nearly every day. We engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world. I deliver to him this exquisite product that's been developed by my officers. He engages in a way that shows his understanding of the complexity. He asks really hard questions. He delivers policy outcomes based on the information that we provide him. My observation of the president is that, we deal in serious matters.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting to grope in the mouse-turd dust, art is the equivalent of athlete's foot, at best an exquisite itch, at worst an excuse to stop walking. On the emotional side, it is either masturbation with a hockey glove or a night beneath the sliding moon that shames Eros.
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence. . . and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.
As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.
