"Sapient" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was neither from you nor Mary Taylor, my only correspondents. Having opened and read it, it proved to be a declaration of attachment and proposal of matrimony, expressed in the ardent language of the sapient young Irishman! Well! thought I, I have heard of love at first sight, but this beats all. I leave you to guess what my answer would be, convinced that you will not do me the injustice of guessing wrong. When we meet I'll show you the letter. I hope you are laughing heartily. This is not like ...
— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter
... and statesman may not have selected the supposed best authorities for his dates, but the sapient critic indulges in a strange admixture of misconception. However, Egyptian chronology is not fully agreed upon, even Manetho and Herodotus differ some 120 years as to the time of Sesostris, and Bishop Warburton, we read, was highly ...
— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird
... with the peculiarly sapient look of a tipsy man who has suddenly lost the thread of his ideas, and ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... with the sapient reflection that it's a terrible thing to be in love, even if only with an old ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance
... more difficult to analyse than specialisation of work—a specialisation of sentiment, habits and morals, which makes people supremely sapient within a narrow sphere which they have appropriated, and so limited as to be blind in the broad field of ethics which lies outside their special ken. And yet it is through these groups, keen-eyed ...
— Personality in Literature • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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