59 Quotes About Subtlety

You can never be too subtle, and you can never be too simple.

Sublime, close at hand but mysterious With the living silence of the rose.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

Some people get sarcasm, and others do not. Poor them.

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with common and vulgar capacities, nor be very acceptable to the singular and excellent sort of men; the first would not understand them enough, and the last too much; and so they may hover in the middle region.

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

Where will this all end up? Will we completely lose our ability to be private, respectful, subtle? Will romance die? Often I long for a simpler time when break ups weren't made a trillion times worse by photo tagging, and rather than spelling it out for people you could be irritated by something and not feel as though you had to voice your gripe with convenient hashtags such as #dogaccidents, #cake and #snow in case it becomes a trending topic.