Daintily Quotes

#1. Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Francis Bacon

#2. If everything in life could be as utterly lovely as newly washed hand towels and daintily perfumed soaps.

Jennifer Beckstrand

#3. I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

Vera Caspary

#5. The new King of Narnia helped both the children up: that is, he gave Digory a rough heave and set Polly as gently and daintily on the horse's back as if she were made of china and might break.

C.S. Lewis

#6. I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. How daintily the butterfly
Flits to the spider's lace
Entranced by glimm'ring silver strings
Entwined with glist'ning grace.
How craftily the spider speaks
And whispers, 'All is well,'
Caresses it with poison'd feet
And sucks it to a shell

Heather Dixon

#8. The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.

Alexander Theroux

#9. Daddy, are we democraps or repelicans? Lainie daintily placed her fork down and gave her brother a stern look. "We're Texans silly.

Kellie Coates Gilbert

#10. Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt;
We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#11. Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Aaron Allston

#12. Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Bertrand Russell

#13. The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situation. Hype becomes autonomous from its object and runs away with itself.

Kode9

#14. Every day's a blessing, so I'm just out there throwing my best.

Dontrelle Willis

#15. Petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.

Ron Rash

#16. They want to cook you and eat you," she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible."
"Thank you, grandmother.

Rick Riordan

#17. You don't know with who you are having to deal with...

you just sign the contract to die

Deyth Banger

#18. I wonder who really is the change candidate? It can't be both of them [Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama]. What would be a black man and a woman - how could that be different than the 43 other Presidents we've had?

Jon Stewart

#19. Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

Gregory Bateson

#20. Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

Cory Booker

#21. I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.

Anurag Kashyap