At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith
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
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
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Anita Loos
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
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