Exquisite

Famous quotes containing the word exquisite:

“In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)