Ingenious Quotes · Page 2

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

— Rex Stout

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

— Edmund Waller

“When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Richard M. Weaver

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to…

— Ryan Holmes

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of…

— Edward Lear

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

— Matthew Henry

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

— Elizabeth David

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most…

— Samuel Pepys

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at…

— Humphry Davy

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship,…

— Jonathan Raban

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that…

— Jules Verne

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away.…

— Jeanette Winterson

I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I…

— Jack Gilbert

You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all…

— Isaac D'Israeli

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round…

— Ambrose Bierce

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour…

— Edward Gibbon

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a…

— Aristophanes

What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow…

— John Armstrong

“A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.”

— Matthew McConaughey

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Anonymous

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

— Anonymous

“The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

— Groucho Marx

“Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”

— Ali Smith

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

— Ellen Kushner

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

— Kazimir Malevich

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

— Homer

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

— Roger Rosenblatt

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

— Henry Fielding

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

— Karl Rove