Delicacy Quotes
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Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
Honore de Balzac -
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Erykah Badu
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There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.
Lily King -
An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.
Saib Tabrizi -
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.
Edwin Booth -
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
Clement Freud -
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
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I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
Wallace Stegner -
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.
Todd English -
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
Steve Martin -
Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
Anthony Santasiere