Quotes of: Sensibly Keyword

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

John Grierson

Margaret: He must like you very much. Marianne: It is not just for me. It is for all of us.

Sense and Sensibility

Fanny: Oh, a cottage! How charming. A little cottage is always very snug.

Sense and Sensibility

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Bartram

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Beryl Bainbridge

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

Jane Campion

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

Bret Easton Ellis

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Alexander Hamilton

The mind is more sensible than heart, if you are sure listen to your heart, if you are confuse listen to your mind.

Amit Kalantri

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

Stan Slap

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

Willie van Peer

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Zadie Smith

Mrs. Dashwood: Why so grave? You disapprove her choice? Marianne: By no means. Edward is very amiable. Mrs. Dashwood: Amiable? But...? Marianne: But there is something wanting. He's too sedate. His reading last night... Mrs. Dashwood: But Elinor has ...

Sense and Sensibility

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Catharine and Other Writings

One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...

English Hours

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

James Monroe

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

Kelly Wearstler

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

American Gods