#sensibility

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility? ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #art

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#business #could #did #good #hustler

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

— Alexander Hamilton

#affections #consent #into #sensibility #should

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#bring #director #get #hope #how

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#appearance #construction #created #during #external

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#out #own #sensibility #steers #their

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#could #everything #gay #i #i think

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

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