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  • Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

    "Complete Works of Edmund Burke".
  • It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.

    Two   Rose   Interesting  
    Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.138
  • Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

    Beautiful   Style   Mind  
  • Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

    Expectations   Joy   Wish  
    William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229
  • That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

    "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
  • Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

    Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.130
  • A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

    Family   Power   Men  
    William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press
  • Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

  • 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, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller

    Pain   Air   Breathing  
    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

    Mother   Son   Men  
    "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.
  • Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.

  • How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

  • Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

    Tiziano Terzani (1997). “A fortune-teller told me”, HarperCollins
  • The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

    Wine   Power   White  
    William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124
  • When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.437, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

    Pleasure   Paid   Insipid  
    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.

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

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.47, Penguin
  • The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

  • 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 of death life is insipid.

    Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.94, New Directions Publishing
  • I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

  • 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 of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

    Fear   Eye   People  
  • Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little rent Than the dull monarch of a continent; Without this bounty which the gods bestow, Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No.

    Dull   Littles   Taste  
    John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.89
  • How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

    Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2444, Ballantine Books
  • 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 life. You don't bring much power.

    Power   Next   Boring  
  • Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

    Beautiful   Fashion   Art  
    James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.178
  • 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, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

    California   Cold   Wasps  
    Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.26, Pan Macmillan
  • There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

    Running   Hate   Jail  
    'Camilla' (1796) bk. 3, ch. 12
  • 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, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

    Mean   Thinking   Air  
    Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.15, Xist Publishing
  • A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

    Men   Tree   Sound  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.264, Vintage
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