Quotes with sensibilities

  • Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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  • Brit Hume In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Thomas De Quincey Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Anthony Minghella The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Brit Hume We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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