Quotes About Keenness

The sharp employ the sharp.

You're very observant, Jimmy," he said, and I thought it was pretty dumb to call it observant—it seemed obvious.

Miss Marple is not the type of elderly lady who makes mistakes. She has got an uncanny knack of being always right.

Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to him, it glowed in their keenness, it hinted in their caring, indeed it caressed in their gaze.'

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

The search for truth and the desire for beauty were the twin ideals he strove to attain. The keenness of this pursuit saved him from the blemish of egoism which aloofness from his surroundings would otherwise have forced upon him.

The sharp employ the sharp.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

where perspicacity is weakened,

One of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

You notice things." "A sexburger like her I notice." The tip of his tongue protruded between his teeth, which were a good grade of plastic.

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost

I'll be ready. I'm ready right now.

The tenacity with which he strove to hide this inward drama made it the more vivid for him; as we hear with the more keenness what we wish others not to hear.

It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life; too keen a theatre-goer to spare time for any but the columns of dramatic criticism, however indifferently written, permitting no international crises from the news pages to cloud the keenness of aesthetic consideration. That was an understandable outlook.

Were ready for him!

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.

wits strong and clear

Spite has focus, a keenness that sympathy lacks.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.