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Slightly whittled, sharper, but it is still a question. In time it will be sharp enough to impale the answer.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.
I am so coarse, the things the poets see
Are obstinately invisible to me
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.
Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.
What you focus on gets prettier; what you love gets closer.
Better is always different.-- T. Brownell
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.
A better you means a better universe.
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.
If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.
Smaller Is Smarter: Hint, Bigger Is Not
almost exquisite, the slight madness
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;
YOU ARE SOMETHING BETTER.-- Mandy Hale
There can never be a more beautiful you ...
This," said Laurent, "is a little more - "
It was a word of sharp points: " - intimate," he said, "than ice."
"Too intimate?" Damen said. Slowly, he was kneading Laurent's shoulders.
He did not usually think of himself as someone with suicidal impulses.
Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
Better meant American. Better meant safe, clean, honest, and true. Dreams of every size and description lulled them into restful sleep at night and fueled them through their backbreaking days. At
Clarity depends on contrast. In
The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace
I made it greater,you always told me to forget the haters.
May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous. (VII)
Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.
Wise words are
sharper than
any sword
Better?" I went from holding her hand to hugging her. "Lindy, you loved me when I wasn't even human.
You kissed me when I had no lips. You saw what was deep down inside me when I wasn't even sure
about it myself. Believe me, there's no way I could do better. I think you're perfect.
How did society ever function without you, little Sharpies? Your nibs have the precise amount of give to create a line quality with character, yet not so much character as to be smushy. Thank you, little pens.
The more of me I be,
The clearer I can see.
This is how I want you: larger and smaller stronger and weaker taller and trembling more, more out of breath that I more burning more penetrating bolder bossier more yielding more frightened narrower and more relentless than you are more than I.
The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence.
Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.
The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.
I am sure my love's more ponderous than my tongue.
She felt ... less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain.
What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?
You can never have enough sharp things in this world
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become
and such lucidity is a form of joy.
b Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it. 17 c Better is a dinner of herbs where love
Greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus
It is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.
high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently
Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.
I'm feeling a little delicate.
Something tells me my spit wouldn't mean as much to Corr as yours would." There's a long Pause before Sean speaks. He says, "Maybe not yet." Yet! I don't think I've ever heard such a fine word before.
better, easier, and happier
Just so you know, honey, if your intention is to give me better ... you're succeeding.
I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.
You have rare beauty the like I have never seen but you will be more beautiful heavy with my seed, he stated softly.
A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
The smallest detail may be the one that matters the most
This son of mine..is entirely sophisticated and quite charming- but delicate- we're all delicate; here, you know.
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
You are more lovely and milder,
Rough winds shake the sweet buds of May,
A summer is way to short.
More flow'rs I noted, yet I none could see
But sweet or color it had stol'n from thee.
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.
More butter please.
Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? ==========
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
Shall I compare thee to a barrel of apples?
Though art more hairy, but sweeter inside.
Rough winds couldn't keep me from taking you to chapel,
Where finally a horse could take a bride ...
How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!
Consider, O Lover, my throat
white as cigarette paper.
The crushed lavender of my knuckles.
My heart, a dulled needle threaded through
too many patterns.
Perhaps if you were not a foot taller, or quite so broad across the shoulders.'
'It's considerably less than a foot,' said Damen.
'Is it?' said Laurent. 'It feels like more when you argue with me on points of honour.
You were unnervingly delicate, And I had a weakness for etiquette
His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
The rough must be taken with the smooth.
You mind your tongue!"
"Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name.
There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.
The greater man the greater courtesy.
There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.
You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said.
"Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied.
"Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was."
I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.
The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.
Better, adj. and adv.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Will it ever get better?
It better.
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
Wait, it gets duller.
Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell . . . .