Exquisite Quotes

The vulgar mind fancies that good judgment is implied chiefly in the capacity to censure; and yet there is no judgment so exquisite as that which knows properly how to approve. - Walter Gilmore Simms

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beau. - William Hazlitt

The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it. - Marcus Aurelius

The most exquisite paradox... as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. - Ram Dass

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun. - Benjamin Franklin

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. - Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural. - Queen Victoria

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The exquisite pain of wanting someone unattainable. Tis a pain to be admired for its unforgiving nature as it forces one to continue chase. - Unknown