Subtle Quotes - Page 37

• Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.

  Joseph Hall

  Adversity, Weather, Numbers

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• One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

  Norman Mailer

  Cities, Waiting, Nausea

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• Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Color, Would Be, Amazed

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Ideas, Nuisance

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

  Brian Tracy

  Simple, Men, Complexes

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Red

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• Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

  Demosthenes

  Self, Deceit, Affection

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• Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

  Tanith Lee

  Extravagance, Way, Archetype

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• When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.

  Edward Weston

  Hate, Liars, Support

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

  Jim Hodges

  Reactions, Should

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• Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

  John Newman

  Change, Differences, Environment

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• The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

  Michael Schudson

  Repetition, Obvious, Transmission

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.28, Routledge

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• Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Black, Etching, Variation

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• Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

  Jay Moore

  Beautiful, Way, Tone

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• The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!

  John F. Carlson

  Eye, Soul, Transition

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• The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

  John F. Carlson

  Stronger, Painting, Painter

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• There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.

  Ian Poulter

  Jobs, Moon, Crossing The Line

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• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

  Wolf Kahn

  Cezanne, Information, Painting

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• There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

  William Davis

  Golf, Games, Two

  William Davis (1973). “The Punch book of golf”

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• Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Faith, Lines, Shade

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.49

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• Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Loyalty, Horse, Integrity

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• How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Regret, Wish

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• My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.

  Rita Rudner

  Cousin, Real, Men

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• Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Color, Long

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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• Who can describe
  Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
  Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
  Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
  The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

  Thomas Otway

  Women, Anger, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156

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