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I could not excuse a man's having more music than love - more ear than eye - a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings. — Jane Austen

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves. — Ken Osmond

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

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life. — Joe Frank

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

For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party. — Neil Peart

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility. — Romain Duris

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 of
feelings 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

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented. — Amy Poehler

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility. — Will Ferrell

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious. — Val Kilmer

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

our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them. — Neil Postman

I think people can at least appreciate the sensibility behind the position I have. It is not a pro-marijuana position. It is a common-sense position. — Jared Huffman

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

'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit. — Maria Semple

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

It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. The — Henry James

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

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. — Anne Tyler

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

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. — Germaine Greer

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

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art. — Yves Klein

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

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. — Jonathan Miller

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. — Anna Jameson

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

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. — Tom Robbins

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility. — Samuel Johnson

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state. — Yves Klein

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

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships, Language. Sensibility. — Zadie Smith

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. — Jane Austen

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

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. — Jon Landau

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 Â£50,000 and love comes to you without social rules and people's need for approval. — Shannon L. Alder

Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director. — Tamra Davis

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 have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility. — Julie Halston

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

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds. — Benjamin Rush

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. — Sara Zarr

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

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is. — Rob Corddry

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility. — Lisa Marie Presley