Famous quotes containing the word delicate:
“Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their com plexion.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Mother,
strange goddess face
above my milk home,
that delicate asylum,
I ate you up.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“While making this portage I saw many splendid specimens of the great purple fringed orchis, three feet high. It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)