#sensibility

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#errors #fault #often #outward #sensibility

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #certain #compelled #consequences #consider

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#completely #deep #folk #get #i

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#crime #insensibility #much #sensibility #too

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor #jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #sons #family

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#behind #call #concept #exact #guess

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #love #marianne-dashwood #quote #sense-sensibility

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did. ↗

— Adele

#deeper #definitely #did #drew #first

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#danger #endure #measure #mental #perfect