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Pleasure that isn`t paid for is as insipid as everything else that`s free.

- Anita Loos

(On Elizabeth Taylor): "At thirty-four 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."

- Richard Burton

(On Elizabeth Taylor): "At thirty-four 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."

- Richard Burton

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

- William Congreve