Exquisite
Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
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Exquisite Quotations
Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Edward Everett Hale
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
Freddie Mercury
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns
Exquisite Translations
exquisite in German is auserlesene
exquisite in Latin is exquisitus
exquisite in Spanish is exquisito
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