Astute Quotes

“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.”

“Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit”

“Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore”

“To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.”

“He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.”

“There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.”

“I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals. I know now that they're astute, Divine beings, clever mammals.”

“Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.”

“The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.”