Sensible Quotes · Page 13

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

— Jane Austen

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

— Charles Fort

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

— Jean Giraudoux

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

— Susan Sontag

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

— Chinua Achebe

And I tohught I was the sensible one. Thanks for setting me straight.

— Essence

“A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.”

— Chanakya

I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.

— Nora May French

“I find that my patients are far more sensible, and far less histrionic, about the realities of this process than their elected…

— Willie Parker

I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There…

— Doc Brown

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is…

— Richard Le Gallienne

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

— Edward Abbey

I have loved to the point of madness, That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way…

— Anonymous

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All…

— George Bernard Shaw

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to…

— Tony Blair

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men,…

— John Stuart Mill

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common…

— Isaac Newton

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is…

— George Bernard Shaw

People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by…

— Zhuangzi

He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. “Amanda, do…

— Lisa Kleypas

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for…

— Benjamin Franklin

I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said…

— Olivia Newton-John

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant…

— Lord Chesterfield

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

— David Nicholls

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.

— Victor Mitchell

“In these modern times, the only sensible thing to be is nonsensical.”

— Jarod Kintz

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

— T. S. Eliot

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

— Richard Steele

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

— Voltaire

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

— Emily Post

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

— Anonymous

“But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

— Mark Dever

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

— D. Elton Trueblood

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

— Paul Ashworth