Delicate Quotes

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Love is knowing that she is delicate and not breaking her still.