Prosaic Quotes

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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always… — Charles Baudelaire
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as… — Walter Benjamin
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. — George Bernard Shaw
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are… — H. L. Mencken
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover. — Stendhal
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think… — Stephen King
I leave these speculations to others. Itâ€™s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One… — Saul Leiter
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to… — Walter Benjamin
...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense. — Henry David Thoreau
Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...… — Michael Dirda
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the… — Oscar Wilde
MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST… — Stan Lee
The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. — Vincent Starrett
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. — Jan Morris
You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these… — Ken Jennings

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