Best Subtle Quotes

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle.

Your very success is what’s going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you’ve developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

…behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor’s speech into sorcery.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth’s in our hearts and we still don’t believe.

The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel times. From a whimsical child’s teapot to an elegant English Teapot, to collectible teapots that adorn some homes, they are a subtle reminder of all that is good in this world.

It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln’s omission is more subtle

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art – supreme art – is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

I don’t like the subtle infiltration of ‘something for nothing’ philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that ‘Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face’ was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Confined to common life thy numbers flow,And neither soar too high nor sink too low;There strength and ease in graceful union meet,Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;Yet powerful to abash the from of crimeAnd crimson error’s cheek with sportive rhyme.[Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri,Ore teres modico, pallentes radere moresDoctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death