When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from. . . the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name. . . . You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.
If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.
The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story. " And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.