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A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.
emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers
How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!
There's nothing fragile about this one. That ain't a fragile nose or mouth or chin, and yet it's female, more female than them fragile-pretty types who look more like ornaments than girls.
Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
Simplicity is a delicate imposition.
Judge tenderly of me.
Gloves make you so much more delicate.
In me soul, I'm gentle.
There is nothing as delicate, as stunning, and as vulnerable as the heart.
Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard.
Do not do that!" it said. "I have a delicate heart!"
"That it keeps in a jar on its desk," Clarabelle whispered loudly.
You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is.
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.
If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
A sensitive woman with a sensitive way of looking,
watching and thinking given and brings only
Sensitivity, Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 5, 2016
Netherlands
She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.
O, gentle lady, do not put me to't,/ For I am nothing, if not critical.
To be gentle is the test of a lady.
When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.
You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
I'm going to be gentle with you, Liz. We're going to treat this delicately. I'm going to let this happen slowly, let us fall slowly. But I am not asking too much of you.
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
The way she felt almost delicate when she was pressed up against him like this. Almost fragile. Almost safe. Almost like a princess.
If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private pain, that makes me feel so tender and fragile. For i am as strong, as i am, weak. If you want me to come home to you, be the safe harbor, in which, i can seek refuge.
Modesty is the highest elegance
We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.
Do not go gentle
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
That's an awful lot of littles, don't you think?"
"Perhaps." He displayed his hand. "Big." He set hers next to his, so small and delicate contrasted with his thick, blunt fingers. Why did holding her fragile hand raise every protective instinct he had?
I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me ...
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.
My Precious, my Precious.
As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists ...
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.
He couldn't read any more of Velvette's stories. This was too intimate. She spills her soul by stitching words so splendidly, even ragged threads are imperceptible.
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.
[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.
You loved me cause I'm fragile. But I thought that I was strong. Well, you touch me for a little while, and all my fragile strength is gone!
All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities
even merely with the velvet.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft
The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.
There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Beginnings are such delicate times.
Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...
Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
It's been a tough century for modesty, craftsmanship and tenderness.
There is no tenderness without bravery.
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
Delicate petals Flow open to receive me Sweetest kiss of all Holy
Sometimes you have to have the lightest touch to lift a heavy heart, to speak at all.
The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Elegance is exquisite polish.
Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life ... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.
Gentle. Which people see as weak.
Matters of great concern should be treated lightly." Master Ittei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.
i am a brutally soft woman.
You know men. We have delicate egos."
"I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate."
"No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos," Simon admitted.
All finery is a sign of littleness.
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world
But watch where you step, I don't want any clues trampled on.' 'I will trample on your soft and delicate bits if you patronize me again,' said Penny. I looked at MacKay. 'It's true. She would.
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
I thought you might supply some tenderness
I lacked
But out of all the things I offered you took my
breath away
and now I want it back
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness
But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in.
Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
She looks clumsy, beautiful. It's a beauty that could pierce the most delicate regions of the heart of the viewer.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.