A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
. . . Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.
Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.
Are not beauty and delicacy the same?
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
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?
Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.