How exquisite is pleasure after pain! [ Young ]

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! [ Burns ]

The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. [ Cicero ]

And then her look - Oh, where's the heart so wise
Could, unbewilder'd, meet those matchless eyes?
Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal.
Like those of angels. [ Moore ]

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue. [ Ruffini ]

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun. [ Proverb ]

Joys too exquisite to last, and yet more exquisite when passed. [ Montgomery ]

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Life is a mauvais quart d'heure (bad quarter hour) made up of exquisite moments. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

A cigarette is the perfect type of pleasure; it is exquisite and leaves one unsatisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. [ Lamartine ]

That caressing and exquisite grace - never bold, ever present - which just a few women possess. [ Owen Meredith ]

You will find that silence, or very gentle words, are the most exquisite revenge for reproaches. [ Judge Hale ]

The tree of the world hath its poisons, but beareth two fruits of exquisite flavor, the nectar of poetry and the society of noble men. [ Hitopadesa ]

The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]

What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle - oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! [ Beecher ]

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much,when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of those days! [ A. Houssaye ]

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. [ Sir William Jones ]

A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

In some exquisite critical hints on Eurythmy. Goethe remarks, that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story. And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [ George Eliot ]

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce. [ Willmott ]

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]