Best 35 quotes in «sensibility quotes» category

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it. But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it. She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest part of it. She got up with an head-ache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either. Her sensibility was potent enough!

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.