Top 36 Indelicate Quotes
#1. How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.
Margo Lanagan
#2. He was clutching at his indelicate bits and writhing about.
Gail Carriger
#3. The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Imogene Coca
#4. Lips. There was something strangely, delicately
indelicate about the word, like a kiss
itself.
Cassandra Clare
#5. Hers to be his to be hers ad
infinitum, smoke smudging
the
bell of her throat. To what had
been or might've been her
thoughts migrated, cloth wall
he
pressed his hand against, he of
the indelicate embrace.
Nathaniel Mackey
#6. The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories - and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
Mark Twain
#7. All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
Anton Chekhov
#8. First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.
Steven Van Zandt
#9. Mother, of course, takes a lot of exercise, walks and so on. And every morning she puts on a pair of black silk drawers and a sweater and makes indelicate gestures on the lawn. That's called Building the Body Beautiful. She's mad about it.
Nancy Mitford
#11. Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
E. M. Forster
#12. Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.
E. M. Forster
#13. I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?
Cassandra Clare
#14. The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation
Edward Gibbon
#15. I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being ... improper."
"Improper, is it?"
"Inappropriate."
"Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.
Veronica Wolff
#16. Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
Samuel Johnson
#17. There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce ...
Muriel Spark
#18. These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.
Gail Carriger
#19. It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
Margery Allingham
#20. We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief ...
John Taylor
#21. In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.
Deborah Sampson
#22. The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.
David Souter
#23. I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.
Daniel Pfeiffer
#24. As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
James Bay
#25. Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back ... I mean like ... that does not even take rocket science.
Jodie Evans
#26. Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few tasks, if any, are more important to the champion of freedom than creation of a sound monetary system.
Hans F. Sennholz
#27. Don't worry," I said. "We won't be having slumber parties and spa days any time soon."
"I quite like spa days.
H.D. Smith
#28. A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.
Shreya Gupta
#29. Appreciate what you have instead of regret ting for something you don't have.
Rah_U
#30. I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Lech Walesa
#31. Someone's opinion can be right on target, or it also could be cluttered with their doubts. Therefore, be careful, do not make someone else's opinion your law.
Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa
#32. What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.
Anne Heche
#33. Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
Alexander Pope
#34. Say what you doin and not what you finna do
Kevin Gates
#35. I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.
Jon Favreau
#36. You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.
William C. Brown