Quotes of: Insipid Keyword

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. ...

The Night Circus

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

William Congreve

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Memento mori

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Anita Loos

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.

Nausea

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!” Aunt Augusta in Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree.

Life

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 its great intellects.

Karl Marx

Waldo Lydecker: I just dropped in to inquire about the state of your health? Insipid, I hope.

Laura

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

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 as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Maira Kalman

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Mary

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Touched with Sight

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.

Tim Macartney-Snape

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

Bound to Accept

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

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 volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

William Makepeace Thackeray

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

Democracy in America