Keener Quotes

37 quotes by 33 authors

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can… — Benjamin Franklin
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a… — Raymond Dart
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. — Marquis de Sade
The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips
Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener. — Curt Sachs
I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I… — Martha Stewart
It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy. — P.G. Wodehouse
People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try. — Andrew Marvell
If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of… — Swami Vivekananda
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener -… — Conrad Veidt
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become… — William Hazlitt
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after… — Seneca the Younger
Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would… — Richard Griffiths
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise… — Moss Hart
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought… — Thomas Cole
Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. — D. M. Thomas
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the… — Errol Flynn

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