The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.
Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.
Delicacy in woman is strength.
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?