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Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
— Washington Allston
Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
— Walter Scott
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
— Bernard Arnault
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
— Leonard Maltin
Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.
— Jeremy Taylor
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
— Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis
Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility offeelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ... so be A REAL HUMAN BEING. — Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
— Charles Baudelaire
Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.
— Seth Rogen
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
— Thomas Jefferson
Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.
— Will Ferrell
Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
— Malcolm Gladwell
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
— Luke Evans
Mama, 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
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.
— Janet Scudder
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.
— Pearl Zhu
You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
— Herbert Read
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
— George Howe Colt
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
— Chuck Klosterman
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.
— Michael Hutchence
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
— William Rounseville Alger
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
— Alan Moore
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
— Jane Addams
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
— Henri Matisse
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
— Sebastian Horsley
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
— Marshall McLuhan
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
— Samuel L. Jackson
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sensibility is the power of woman.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
— Thomas Carlyle
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
— Fred Tomaselli
My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.
— Tony Parker
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.
— Robyn Davidson
I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
— Siobhan Fahey
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
— George Pope Morris
For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.
— Charlotte Casiraghi
Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.
— Roberto Calasso
If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
— Philippa Gregory
I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
— Leighton Meester
Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
— Zephyr Teachout
a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility. And
— George Eliot
The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
— Antonio Machado
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
— Shinichi Suzuki
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
— Samuel Johnson
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
— Remy De Gourmont
most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.
— Jim Dodge
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
— Wallace Stevens
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
— Alexander Hamilton
One of the oldest longings of all people of mystical sensibility is to be rid of disguises to the point of becoming naked.
— Dorothee Solle
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
When you had as little money as the Sargents did, sensibility in all matters was ingrained young. In
— Maggie Stiefvater
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
— Salman Rushdie
Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Lee] sees a B & B sign he thinks it's for another movie. — Emma Thompson
Pray you never become Miss Grey with her £50,000 and love comes to you without social rules and people's need for approval.
— Shannon L. Alder
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
— Frederick Law Olmsted
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
— Marilyn Manson
Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
— Remy De Gourmont
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
— Nicolas Cage
the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility
— Jane Austen
Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.
— Stefano Gabbana
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
— Ben Stiller
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
— Guy Davenport
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
— Henry Ward Beecher
