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An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. - Edmund Burke A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Women could take part in the processions, the songs, the dances, of old religion; no one fancied their delicacy was impaired by appearing in public for such a cause. - Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty. - Joseph Marie de Gerando Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them. - Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things. - Mary Howlitt The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") To a woman of delicate feeling the most persuasive declaration of love consists in the embarrassment of the lover. - Niocolas Valentin de Latena Delicacy in woman is strength. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Delicacy is to affectation what grace is to beauty. - Mme. Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. - Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg) Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. - Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg) Delicacy is the coquetry of truth; fastidiousness is the prudery of falsehood. - Achille Poincelot Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit. - Achille Poincelot In delicate souls love never presents itself but under the veil of esteem. - Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere Roland It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character. - Lydia Huntley Sigourney If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. - Henry David Thoreau Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. - Marguerite de Valois
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