Subtlety
The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.
Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.
Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.
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Subtlety Quotations
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
Hedy Lamarr
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
Alice Meynell
I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
John McEnroe
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
Daniel Craig
Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
Mary Wesley
There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.
Rita Coolidge
It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.
Judy Davis
Subtlety Translations
subtlety in German is Feinheit
subtlety in Spanish is sutileza
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