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«?Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.? [That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.]»
Author: Nicholas Boileau | Keywords: de trop, dit, E.T., EST, fade, insipid, repeated, tedious, tout, touted
«At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though.»
Author: Richard Burton (Actor) | About: Age, Women | Keywords: bosom, chin, chinned, chins, endowed, flaws, insipid, lavishly, potbelly, slight, take it on the chin, Too Short
«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.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author, Philanthropist, Writer) | Keywords: canonization, insipid
«Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: insipid, rarest, vintage
«Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Expectation | Keywords: expectation, insipid, uncertainty
«At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | About: Faith | Keywords: at times, cause, cease, faithful, insipid, opponents, remains
«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.''»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | Keywords: altitude, A level, bourgeoisie, flatness, Great Plains, hills, insipid, intellects, mound, mounds, The Mound
«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.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Quotations | Keywords: amiss, applied, aptly, be amiss, discharged, discharges, discharging, hit-or-miss, insipid, proverb, reasonably, renders, Right or Wrong, vulgar
«The wall of the body is temporary, as is the soul-mason within it. The flavor of the intellect is bland and insipid without the Salt. O Nanak, as He wills, He makes things right. Without the Name, no one is approved.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: approved, insipid, Mason, masons, wills
«If the schemes of Utopians could be realized, the tone of society would be changed from what it is, into a sort of insipid high life. There could be no fine tragedies written; nor would there be any pleasure in seeing them. We tend to this conclusion already with the progress of civilization.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: high life, insipid, schemes, tone, tragedies, Utopian, Utopians
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