Acute Quotes

Acute Quotes & Sayings

These acute quotes and acute sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. - Robert A. Heinlein


Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Biography should be written by an acute enemy. - Arthur James Balfour


I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. - Thomas Jefferson


I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the colour-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it. - John Singer Sargent