“A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.” PeopleMenChoicesCompanyGreaterTasteConversationIndifferentOur ChoicesDelicacyLove And Friendship Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary
“Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.” PassionEffectsTasteMiserySpheresDelicacy Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.” MenMindCertainPrinciplesLaughingTasteWeaknessWeakStrongerSuperiorsConsistentDelicacyWeak ManSusceptibility Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.” WellsArtMatterPlayMightRememberFacesSpiritualSocialTechnologyFieldsPaintingTasteSpeechConcernTwentiesInstrumentsShiningMusicalIntellectMannersEaseGentleGood ManEngineeringEngineersBoresDelicacyGood MannersBreadthAgilityMusical Instruments Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.” WorldPhilosophyBeautifulSpiritCertainPassionLiteratureBitsSidesHoursPleasureTalkingSeaBalanceWalkingTasteTablesWineLibraryTheatreParisRebellionLatinBottlesMuseumsHeritageStubbornEleganceIllustrationDelicacyRigorHumanisticInsolenceBottles Of WineSaying NothingProvenceNordic Author:Clemence Poesy
“When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.” ArtFashionTasteCombinationDelicacyHigh Art Author:Erykah Badu
“When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object.” MatterPleasureObjectsTasteDoctrineFeaturesAestheticSensitivityDelicacyCovertHume Author:Frederick C. Beiser