Sensibility Quotes - Page 2

• Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

  George Eliot

  Tone, Unexpected, Persons

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• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Names, Giving, Want

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Way, Wells

  Jane Austen (2000). “Sense and Sensibility: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.97, Modern Library

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• The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Men, Literature

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Work, Organization

  'Sense and Sensibility' (1811) ch. 13

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• There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Sorry, Giving

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

  Jane Austen

  Cold Hearted, Ashamed, Marianne Dashwood

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• Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

  Robert Burns

  Thrill, Woe, Pleasure

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.214

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• people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

  Jane Austen

  People, Paid

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: World Classics”, p.9, World Classic

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Minorities, Moral

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

  Peter Medawar

  Cutting, Luck, Ears

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.86, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Acceptance, Duty

  "Fictional character: Marianne". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Reading Poetry, Mind

  Sonnet 116

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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Natural

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.

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• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

  Jane Austen

  Action, Wanted, Syllables

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.187

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments: love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Memorable, Mind

  Sonnet 116

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• If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Easy, Knows

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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• He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Cold Hearted

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.7

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• I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

  Horace Walpole

  Rap, Axes, Doe

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• I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Inferiority

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

  Emma Thompson

  Differences, Expectations, Finals

  Emma Thompson (2007). “Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries”, Newmarket Press

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• Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Compliment, Rational

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 36, 1811.

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