DELICACY
Related Subjects: Beauty, Fastidiousness, Luxury, Sensitivity, Tact, Taste
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An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty.—BURKE
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True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an act of offence from itself, than to itself.—GREVILLE
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Weak men, often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive a certain susceptibility, delicacy, and taste, which render them, in these particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.—GREVILLE
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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
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl you deprave her very fast.—HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.—THOREAU
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