Famous quotes containing the word incapable:
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor ...”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)