Ingenious Quotes
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.
Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.
Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s.
A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.
Our imagination is God’s ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can’t see only because we’ve yet to create them.
