Delicacy in woman is strength. [ Lichtenberg ]
Delicacy is the parent of decency. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
Too great refinement is false delicacy. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Even to the delicacy of their hand
There was resemblance such as true blood wears. [ Byron ]
Delicacy is to affection what grace is to beauty. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
No heart opens to sympathy without letting in delicacy. [ J. M. Barrie ]
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed. [ C. M. Yonge ]
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon decency. [ Balzac ]
Women admire strength without affecting it; men delicacy without returning it. [ Jean Paul ]
An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. [ Burke ]
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. [ Landor ]
The art requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. [ Cicero ]
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself - if I may be allowed the expression - than to itself. [ Greville ]
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions. [ Horace Bushnell ]
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. [ Lord Karnes ]
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]