Acute

Famous quotes containing the word acute:

“I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)