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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. -- Jacques Maritain
Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. -- Voltaire
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. -- Freddie Mercury
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. -- Theophile Gautier
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. -- Polykarp Kusch
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
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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. -- Charles Baudelaire
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. -- Anton Chekhov
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! -- Rex Reed
We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name. -- Dana Gioia
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat. -- Doris Lessing
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. -- Bernard Malamud
The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. -- Oscar Wilde
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. -- George Henry Lewes
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably. -- Blaise Pascal
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. -- Edward Everett Hale
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. -- Luis Bunuel
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. -- Dorothy Parker
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. -- Roberto Benigni
I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more. -- Britt Ekland
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. -- Maggie Gallagher
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. -- Maggie Gallagher
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully -- Jason Schwartzman
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. -- James Patterson
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
Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive. -- Ariel Pink
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. -- John Millington Synge
I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me. -- Mark Hyman
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom. -- Gordon Gee
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
The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. -- Brian Skerry
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. -- Oscar Wilde
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert. -- George Gershwin
It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style. -- Martha Stewart
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Elegance is exquisite polish. -- Suzanne Curchod
Everything that is exquisite hides itself. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept. -- Dave Eggers
The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite. -- Clive Barker
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy. -- Emile Zola
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others. -- Jean de la Bruyere
fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches. -- Treasure Stitches
Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue. -- Giovanni Ruffini
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. -- Leigh Hunt
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. -- Steven Pinker
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. -- Desiderius Erasmus
My ex girlfriend was exquisite, and my current one is quisite. -- Jarod Kintz
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. -- James Montgomery
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. -- Benjamin Franklin
A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art. -- Erwin McManus
[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost. -- Keegan-Michael Key
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. -- Kevin Smith
AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air." -- Kevin Smith
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. -- Virginia Woolf
Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy. -- Mark Haddon
I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment. -- Audrey Hepburn
If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain? -- Margaret Landon
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. -- Kiera Cass
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. -- Brad Holland
I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual. -- Elizabeth Heyert
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. -- George Santayana
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. -- Oscar Wilde
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! -- Robert Burns
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. -- Ram Dass
I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist. -- George Saunders
I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper. -- Austin Scarlett
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. -- Oscar Wilde
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. -- Nikki Gemmell
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. -- Oscar Wilde
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. -- Jonathan Edwards
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. -- Vera Kistiakowsky
The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty. -- Kevin Spacey
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. -- Marcel Proust
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction. -- Blakney Francis
...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship. -- John Henry Jowett
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style -- Coco Chanel
There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. -- Jack London
The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain. -- David Hawkins
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. -- Ram Dass
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. -- James Ensor
Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction. -- Paul Brunton
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature -- Carl Sagan
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. -- Virginia Woolf
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. -- Thomas Huxley
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. -- Anne Lamott
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights. -- Martha Beck
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. -- Sydney Smith
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. -- Stanley Crouch
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. -- Steven Pinker
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end. -- Kami Garcia
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! -- Hafez
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life. -- Desire-Joseph Mercier
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. -- Frank Herbert
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. -- Florence King
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. -- Arthur Machen
Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman? -- Mary MacLane
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. -- Susan Orlean
Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly. -- Guillermo del Toro
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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