Quotes with insipid

  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • William Shenstone A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 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
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • W. M. Thackeray 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!
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If the 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.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Anita Loos Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Karl Marx 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
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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