A Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Earnest Hurry Impressive Mistake Nonsense Occasionally Sense Sometimes Takes

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Benjamin Disraeli
British - Celebrity
December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

Daniel Handler

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Leigh Hunt

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Richard Dawkins

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Mark Twain

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.

Lee Daniels

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

Han Suyin

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Cassandra Clare

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Gary Zukav

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.

Lee Daniels

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

Vernon Howard

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Anthony Burgess

What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearance… in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, ‘to cease to be among men’) just as action in the sense of ‘to make a beginning’ is a repetition of birth.

Hannah

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.