He still had his glorious sense of words drawn from the special reservoir from which Lincoln also drew, fed by Shakespeare and thoseTudor critics who wrote the first Prayer Book of Edward VI and their Jacobean successors who translated the Bible.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of  Winston Churchill. Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known.

: Ihavea finesense oftheridiculous, but nosense of humour. 9

-Albee, Edward Franklin, III
  MARTHA1962  Who's  Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, act1.

   A bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

-Balliett,Whitney
  His definition of a critic. Dinosaurs in the Morning, introductory note.

We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter whichpresentsitselfasnot wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant), but which, carefullyattended to, can supply a kind of 'sense'of what isgoing on. This 'sense' is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces), but by reading the lines themselves.

-Barthelme, Donald
  Snow White.

Le toucher est le plus de¤  mystificateur de tous les sens, a'   la diffe¤  rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

-Barthes, Roland
  Mythologies,'La nouvelle Citroe«  n'.

And though she had some decays in the face, she had none in her sense and wit.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave.

   The same principles which at first lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense. See Bacon 48:95.

-Berkeley, George
  Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, dialogue 3.

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

-Dodgson
  The Duchess.  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.9,'The Mock Turtle's Story'.

The difference inthis case between a manof senseand a fop, is, thatthefopvalueshimself uponhis dress; theman of sense laughs at it, at the same time that he knows he must not neglect it.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to his son,19 Nov.

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

-Chirico, Giorgio de
Quoted in Saranne  Alexandrian Surrealist  Art (1970).

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

-Churchill, Charles
  The Farewell, l.200.

He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.7.

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

-Crabbe, George
  Inebriety, a Poem, pt.1, l.132^5.

I know my life's a pain and but a span, I know my sense is mocked in every thing; And to conclude, I know myself a man, Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

-Davies, SirJohn
  Nosce Teipsum, stanza 45.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour. Let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou have paid thy utmost blessing.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'Fare Well'.

Aconspiracy iseverything thatordinary lifeisnot.It'sthe inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us.We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle.Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach.

-DeLillo, Don
  Libra, pt.2,'In Dallas'.

Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partage¤  e: car chacun pense en e"  tre si bien pourvu, que ceux me"  me qui sont les plus difficiles a'   contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en de¤  sirer plus qu'ils ont. En quoi il n'est pas vraisemblable que tous se trompent; mais pluto" t  cela te¤  moigne que la puissance de bien juger et distinguer le vrai d'avec le faux, qui est proprement ce qu'on nomme le bon sens ou la raison, est naturellement e¤  gale en tous les hommes. Good sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world; for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it, that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other way do not usually desire more of it than they already have. In this matter it is not likely that everybody is mistaken; it rather goes to show that the power of judging well and distinguishing truth from falsehood, which is what we properly mean by good sense or reason, is naturally equal in all men.

-Descartes, Rene¤
  Discours de la me¤  thode (Discourse on Method),1st discourse (translated by G E M  Anscombe and Peter Geach).

These two ignorant and unpolished people had guided themselves so faron in their journey of life, bya religious sense of duty and desire to do right.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^5  Of Mr and Mrs Boffin. Our Mutual Friend, bk.1, ch.9.

Much Madness is divinest Senseö To a discerning Eyeö Much Senseöthe starkest Madnessö

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1862  Complete Poems, no.435 (first published1890).

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

-Dillon,Wentworth
  Essay on Translated Verse, l.113.