The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Hard-work is more about mental sensibility and less about physical intensity

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her — she was only an Object of Contempt

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

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.

Need doesn’t care about being sensible.

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

What is this thing of intangible substance that wreaks consequential havoc on our lives? What is this sensitive thread that runs through heart and mind, and when given the slightest tremor grasps hold of all...

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the...

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he’s not dead.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can’t teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one’s soul.