Sensibility Quotes

315 Sensibility quotes by 272 unique authors

I’ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I don’t know. I think those two guys you were with would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the… — C.S. Lewis
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the… — Emma Goldman
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate… — C.S. Lewis
I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I… — Kij Johnson
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,… — William Wordsworth
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a… — Sara Zarr
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their… — Mary Doria Russell
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more… — E. O. Wilson
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a… — Robert Stone
He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again. He wasn’t wearing… — Julia Quinn
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities.… — Anais Nin
Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody… — Jane Austen
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit… — Novalis
Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities.” The earl actually snorted. “My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things,… — Gail Carriger
If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural… — Leslie Ludy
I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries… — Laurie Halse Anderson
You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities. — Rosemary Clement-Moore
They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a… — Neal Stephenson
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral… — Oliver Sacks
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. — Jane Austen
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers… — Stephen King
Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter… — Aldous Huxley

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