Sensibility; Sentiment Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Sensibility; Sentiment


Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo. Burns—Sweet Sensibility.	1
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words. George Eliot—Adam Bede. Ch. XXVII.	2
Noli me tangere. Do not wish to touch me. Touch me not. John. XX. 17. From the Vulgate.	3
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns. Moore—O Think Not My Spirits.	4
It seem’d as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain’d Fast to the spot such root she took, And—like a sunflower by a brook, With face upturn’d—so still remain’d! Moore—Loves of the Angels. First Angel’s Story. L. 33.	5
To touch the quick. Sophocles—Ajax. 786.	6
Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. Jeremy Taylor—Sermon.	7
I sit with my toes in a brook. And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For ’tis sentiment does it, says I. Horace Walpole. See Cunningham’s Walpole.	8