#exquisite

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#good #good reason #know #love #most

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#beauty #care #choice #detail #execution

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#exquisite #had #like #music #passed

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#better #contemptible #department #exquisite #fail

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#pleasures #revision #writing

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#exquisite #form #gratitude #most

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#beautiful #clothes #create #customer #design

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#exquisite #i #lead #life #surrounded

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ↗

— James Montgomery

#joys #last #more #past #too

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#horror #impress #mind #power #reality