Best Insipid Quotes
63 Insipid quotes by 58 unique authors
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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 around saloons and…
— Camille Paglia
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A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than…
— Joseph Addison
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Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense…
— Muriel Spark
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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the…
— Jane Austen
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That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next…
— Frederick Lenz
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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
— William Congreve
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of…
— Karl Marx
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,…
— Hermann Hesse
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How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
— Anne Rice
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or…
— William Hazlitt
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As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean,…
— Joseph Conrad
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It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.
— Janet Fitch
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To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing…
— Georges Bataille
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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.…
— Mark Twain
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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull…
— Jane Austen
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the…
— Rachel Carson
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True Love. Iām starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.ā ā Cupcake
— Rachel Cohn
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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