Sensitive souls live more than others. [ Duclos ]
Sensitive beings are not sensible beings. [ Balzac ]
Women are too imaginative and sensitive to have much logic. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart. [ Joseph Bartlett ]
There are people so sensitive that they afflict us with our own sorrows. [ C. Jordan ]
Sensitive people wish to be loved; vain people wish only to be preferred. [ Levis ]
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Mediocrity is less sensitive than genius, and therefore suffers less under nearly any possible exigency. [ William Winter ]
It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart; it is so much more sensitive. [ Thoreau ]
If women are naturally more superstitious than men, it is because they are more sensitive and less enlightened. [ Beauchene ]
The cold iron of neglect is sharper to a child's sensitive nature than any alteration of harshness and affection. [ Mrs. Annie Edwards ]
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive. [ Froude ]
The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in woman, by the heart: it is there that they are the most sensitive. [ Stendhal ]
Books are negative pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the fine lines are produced. [ O. W. Holmes ]
We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. [ Lowell ]
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Books are the negative pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced. [ Holmes ]
All those observers who have spent their lives in the study of the human heart, know less about the signs of love than the most brainless, yet sensitive woman. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
A taste for flowers and a love for the beautiful, as exhibited in the wonders of creative power, are evidences of a refined and sensitive nature, and peculiar traits of character which distinguish man from the lower order of animals. [ Celestia R. Colby ]
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]