English Delicacy Quotes

#1. No, Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English. He may be very 'aimable,' have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people: nothing really amiable about him.

Jane Austen

#2. Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.

J. E. H. MacDonald

#3. The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

#4. Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#5. You know I never lie ... "
I raised an eyebrow.
" ... about dancing." he amended with a crooked grin.

Juliet Blackwell

#6. The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president,

John Boehner

#7. Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people ... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer ... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

Nelson Eddy

#8. The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking lot late at night, your entire sense of danger would be heightened. You would stand straight. You'd walk quickly. You'd know where you were going. You would look for light.

James Comey

#9. I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

Owain Yeoman

#10. Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on.

Brian Browne Walker

#11. That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

Holly Black

#12. Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

J. Patrick Lewis

#13. Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

Lucille Clifton

#14. There is no stronger bond than the one that gets you through childhood.

Wendy Wunder

#15. If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.

Constance Marie

#16. 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

#17. When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

Frank Langella