Exquisite Quotes

Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant. (Anton Chekhov)
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. View quote
Luis Buñuel
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. View quote
Arthur Machen
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure. View quote
E. B. White
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept. View quote
Dave Eggers
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve,-how exquisite the bliss! View quote
Robert Burns
But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well. (Fernando Flores)
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle. View quote
Alain de Botton
I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure - an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? View quote
Charlotte Brontë
She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. View quote
George Eliot
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism. View quote
Simone Weil
This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions... the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so. (Henry James)
Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder-and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe-a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascod, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. View quote
Vladimir Zhirinovsky