Exquisite Quotes

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

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.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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.

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.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

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!

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.

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.

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.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

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.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

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

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

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.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

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.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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.