Subtle may refer to:
- Subtle (band), a musical group consisting of members of the anticon. hip-hop collective
- Doctor Subtilis, John Duns Scotus
- Subtle body, an idea in mysticism
- The Subtle Knife, a novel by Philip Pullman and the second book in the trilogy His Dark Materials
- Subtle, a character in The Alchemist (play) by Ben Jonson
- Subtle, a tiling window manager
Famous quotes containing the word subtle:
“Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.”
—Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886)
“The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians’, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)