Ingenious Quotes · Page 2

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

— Christopher Morley

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

— Isaac Barrow

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

— Samuel Johnson

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

— George Jean Nathan

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

— Karl Rove

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

— Henry Fielding

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

— Roger Rosenblatt

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

— Homer

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his…

— Thomas Huxley

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is…

— Ambrose Bierce

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed…

— Paul Di Filippo

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the…

— Isak Dinesen

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of…

— Daryl Hannah

Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive,…

— Jeff Buckley

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various…

— Ambrose Bierce

A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…

— G. H. Hardy

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is…

— William Bolitho

England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a…

— Samuel Smiles

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support…

— Edward Abbey

Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,…

— Agnes Repplier

An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

— Michael Medved

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

— Ambrose Bierce

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

— Joseph Conrad

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

— Murray Rothbard

“While intellect might make a man ingenious, it is passion that keeps genius on its feet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

— Henry Ward Beecher

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

— Paul Keres

Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it…

— Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

— Mary-Louise Parker

“The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.” Back”

— Aldous Huxley

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

— Richard M. Weaver

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

— Ambrose Bierce