Sensibility Quotes - Page 3

• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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• They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Sorrow, Admitting

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.4, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Taken, Affection, Stealing

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...”, p.331

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• Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

  Herbert Read

  Life, Art, Patterns

  "Perl Cookbook". Book by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, 1998.

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• On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Party, Way

  1811 Sense and Sensibility, vol.2, ch.6.

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• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  Immanuel Kant

  Character, Thinking, Intuition

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.46, Read Books Ltd

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• Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Music, Character, Joy

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  It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Action, Jane

  Jane Austen, Terry Glaspey (2015). “The Prayers of Jane Austen”, p.75, Harvest House Publishers

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• Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Names, Consciousness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

  Jane Austen

  Life, Heart, Suffering

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

  John Varvatos

  Philosophy, Moving, Old And New

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• I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

  Vincent Gallo

  Lonely, Ideas, Feel Good

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• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Talking, Feelings

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Heart, Knowing

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

  Jane Austen

  Impossible, Silent, Feels

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Eye, Evil

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.336

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• The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ocean, Heart, Storm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.147

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• Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Quality, Vices, Ornaments

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2046, e-artnow

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• The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Morbid, Cures

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Change, Opinion

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.217

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• Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Sensitivity

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• You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

  Michael Franti

  Different, Firsts, Steps

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• Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Art, Born, Turns

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• I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Thinking, Interesting, Guy

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• But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Essence, World

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