#exquisite

There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#exquisite #love #beauty

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. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#best #books #cannot #convey #darkness

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ↗

— Robert Burns

#bliss #brother #brothers #distress #exquisite

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#anyone #anything #dependent #exquisitely #hardly

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#breathing #exquisite #i #love #satisfaction

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. ↗

— James Boswell

#every #every man #exquisitely #happy #man

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#audience #chapter #corpse #experience #exquisite

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all. ↗

— John Cleese

#anyone #appeal #experts #exquisite #like

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour