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Are not beauty and delicacy the same?
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism
An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart.
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
I like to play the lute full-bloodedly, with passion, as well as with delicacy and, I hope, refinement.
There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.
Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.
I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.
Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.