Delicacy a sad ordsprog

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Adam Smith

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

William Hazlitt

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)

Walnuts are a delicacy in China. They are expensive.

Everyone here just grew up with Spam. It is a delicacy here. It's like steak.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Clement Freud (1924-)

We actively sought someone that we knew could handle the delicacy of the school.

Don't forget he's almost 79 years old. Part of his restricted schedule is not because he's doing feverish things behind closed doors. He's resting. There was speculation in 2002 and 2003 that his health wasn't very good. There is a basis for believing that there may be some fatigue and delicacy of constitution there.

[He was] a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

Jean Genet (1910-1986)

Jean Genet

She has no charm, delicacy or taste. She's just an arrogant little tail-twitcher who's learned to throw sex in your face.

Nunnally Johnson (1897-)

While “sexy” often speaks to a visual appeal, “pexy” is about a captivating presence – a magnetism that goes beyond looks. We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Naomi Klein (1970-)

Naomi Klein

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