You wouldn't know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Subtle Plans Are Here Again.'
Blackadder
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Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
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B. MICHAEL QUALE He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL It's a marvelously subtle attack.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
DICK CAVETT You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.
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CLIFF STEARNS Are you trying to be subtle? Because I know you're talking about the honeybunnyless prom tragedy tha...
JOHN GREEN The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious li...
YUAN-SOU The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious li...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I never thought that anyone who loved me could hurt me. Abuse is very subtle. Abusers are very subtl...
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BOB EASTWOOD The desire for agreement from others is a subtle form of fear, and this runs counter to who you real...
REUBEN LOWE He is a very clever and subtle negotiator.
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DORIS LESSING Subtle nuances, fine finishes and overall quality are most important.
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TANITH LEE That is a terrible plan."
"Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible."
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JANET EVANOVICH In case of doubt, remember I'm French, I rarely make subtle remarks about relationships.
LAURA CHIROT They're very subtle - we didn't notice them for a while.
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STEVE TIHANYI is that your subtle way of calling me a slut?
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SYLVESTER MCCOY They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women JIM BUTCHER Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Time, the subtle thief of youth
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ANDREW WYETH The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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ANDREW CAMERON If you want money more than anything,
you will be bought and sold.
If you have a gre...
RUMI A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on,
Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.
BIBLE We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
DR. PAUL TOURNIER The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
PAUL TOURNIER All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
DUANE MICHALS The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL Now get back to your room - if you can manage it without throwing yourself at someone else."
"I...
RICHELLE MEAD The present (time) is a very subtle thing. On one side there is the past and on the other side there...
DADA BHAGWAN Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn y...
SOURCE UNKNOWN YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ...
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ELKE ALLEN It's weird. There are these little subtle changes that kind of go into looking significantly younger...
JOHN HENSLEY Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit
In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:
If aught...
SIR JOHN DAVIES Continuing to be domainated by resistance to the expression of who you really are means that you per...
REUBEN LOWE The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delica...
DAISAKU IKEDA Companies know that discrimination, whether overt or subtle, is bad for employees and bad for busine...
DARYL HERRSCHAFT There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
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JODI PICOULT There's a very subtle effect, a spike, and that's what we're looking for.
STEPHEN KANE I found one that is less obtrusive than some. It sounds more like a wind chime than a regular ring t...
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GARY F EVANS... this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir...
PRISCILLA WARNER We'll work on little things. Little subtle things can really help.
BUCKY DENT The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.
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D. J. ENRIGHT Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to...
D. J. ENRIGHT Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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LIZ KESSLER ...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as t...
GEORGE ELIOT If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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DICK VAN DYKE Mind yourself in that guardroom," Gilan told him. Thorn grinned cheerfully. He never had any stomach...
JOHN FLANAGAN The challenge was subtle adjustment of jet propulsion.
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