SENSITIVITY AND INSENSITIVITY

Related Subjects: Consideration, Delicacy, Feeling, Tact

1. Quick sensitiveness is inseparable from a ready understanding.—ADDISON
   

2. Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourselves.—C. N. BOVEE
   

3. Where virtue is, sensibility is its ornament and becoming attire; but it, and all the amiable qualities may become, and too often have become the panders of vice, and the instruments of seduction.—COLERIDGE
   

4. Sensibility would be a good portress, if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.—C. C. COLTON
   

5. Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.—O. W. HOLMES
   

6. No, Sir; stark insensibility.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

7. Sensibility is the power of woman.—LAVATER
   

8. Sensibility is neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principles it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation.—HANNAH MORE
   

9. Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility leads to crime.—TALLEYRAND