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Insipid Quotes by Jane Austen
- 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…
- 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…
More Insipid Quotes
- I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. — Anita Loos
- I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady
- Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith
- 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
- There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that… — Fanny Burney
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful… — William James
- 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
- The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E F Schumacher
- The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson
- How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in… — Donella Meadows
- Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a… — Unknown Author