“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful… — William James Copy Share Image
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst:… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
“The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“Staying here won’t make me happy. It will make you happy because you are insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
