38 Quotes About Sensibility

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

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

بچه ى تركمن، ملايمت را از مادر مى گيرد، سرسختى را از پدر؛ مهربانى را از مادر، بى رحمى را از پدر؛ عطوفت را از مادر، تفكر را از پدر؛ گذشت و بخشش را از مادر، انتقام جويى و كينه مندى را از پدر؛ و همه ى اين ها براى يك تركمن لازم است.

It is maintained by some that travel has no educational value, that a person with sensibility can gain as rich an experience of life by staying right where he is as by wandering around the world, and that a person with no sensibility may as well remain at home anyway. To me this is nonsense, for if one is a bore, I maintain that it is better to be a bore about Peshawar than Upper Tooting.

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

Ambos factores son importantes para el funcionamiento de la memoria: si no nos volviéramos tolerantes a las experiencias conocidas, siempre nos resultarían nuevas y potencialmente abrumadoras. El cerebro probablemente se quedaría sin capacidad de almacenaje, como un ordenador viejo. De manera similar, si no nos volviéramos cada vez más sensibles a ciertas cosas, no seríamos capaces de mejorar el modo de responder ante ellas.

[...] benché in genere bastino pochissime ore trascorse nella fatica di parlare incessantemente a esaurire molti più argomenti di quanti possano avere davvero in comune due creature raziocinanti, con gli innamorati è diverso. Tra loro nessun argomento è mai finito, niente è davvero detto che non sia ripetuto almeno una ventina di volte.

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

...and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.