sense quotes

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Why should poetry have to make sense?