Insipid Quote by Anita Loos Download Open image “Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.” — Anita Loos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insipid Paid Pleasure
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument. — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.” — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share
Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them. — Jeremiah Seed 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, and destructive… — Tobias Smollett 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 in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly… — William James Copy Share
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid. — Hayim Nahman Bialik Copy Share Image
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
Men marry for fortune, and sometimes to please their fancy; but, much oftener than is suspected, they consider what the world will say of it--how such a woman in their friends' eyes will look at the head of a table. Hence we see so many insipid beauties made wives of, that could not have struck the particular fancy of any… — Charles Lamb Copy Share
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem...… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very end of this volume, in conjunction with her finding and marrying her husband of 30 years, Ron Weldon. In this sense, it is half a memoir, the private background story to the public future. (...)… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share
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