Quotes About Sensibility

With an exalted sense of his place in history, he viewed himself as a potential savior of the republic. He once told a friend, "Perhaps my sensibility is the effect of an exaggerated estimate of my services to the U[nited] States, but on such a subject every man will judge for himself.

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back.

Fewer people are capable of experiencing things than is commonly supposed.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Rostros todavía lozanos y sonrosados (porque la sensibilidad era un proceso tan rápido que no tenía tiempo de marchitar las mejillas, y sólo afectaba al corazón y el cerebro) se volvían a su paso

He liked women; love was an indispensable enjoyment. But nobody was worth involving oneself in tiresome complications for, nothing was worh messing up one's life for. With the women who hadn't been sensible and had taken love too seriously, John Bidlake had been ruthlessly cruel. It was the battle of 'All for love' against 'anything for his quiet life.' John Bidlake always won. Fighting for his quiet life, he drew the line at no sort of frightfulness.

cela faisait sans doute bien longtemps qu'elle ne craignait plus l'irruption de l'absurde dans la géométrie du bon sens.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

so are you going to marry me or what?" He smiled that smile that had been making me feel something like drunk these past few months, and I felt all my sensibility and reason start to beat their wings as they prepared to fly away. Again.

One of Lorne's pet theories had always been that Saturday Night was not so much in the business of television as it was in the business of rock and roll. The audience, the sensibility, was the same, he said, the show had simply picked up where rock in the sixties left off.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

feeling is the place every story starts.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.

Sensibility, in Austen's time, meant relying on one's feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth.

The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much indeed was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, which he fancied must express all the sensibility of character that the modulation of her tones indicated.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.