Quotes about Subtlety

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

Most people don't feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.

God has worked anonymously since the very beginning—it has always been an inside and secret sort of job. The Spirit seems to work best underground. When aboveground, humans start fighting about it.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

Hi, Mikey, how are you doing? Do you have any big plans for the weekend?" Mikey stood nervously in the conference room, looking back at Charlie. The eye fuck he gave him was not the most subtle. "No, Mr. Sanders, I mean, I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. I've been too busy this afternoon to really give it much thought." "Well