Top 20 Jejune Quotes
#1. To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [ ... ]
George Eliot
#3. In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
P. J. O'Rourke
#4. I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune ... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.
Chuck Palahniuk
#5. I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.
Tom Wolfe
#6. [T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.
Camille Paglia
#7. FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
#8. It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.
Allen West
#9. My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.
Ellsworth Kelly
#10. There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
Anonymous
#11. Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell
#12. You're the smartest one in the class, Aibileen," she say. "And the only way you're going to keep sharp is to read and write every day.
Kathryn Stockett
#13. Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
Kathe Kollwitz
#14. We are here, and then we are gone, and it's not about the time we're, but what we do with that time.
Rick Yancey
#15. In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.
Mother Meera
#16. Texas governor Rick Perry said God is calling on him to run for President. But Michele Bachmann said that god is calling on her to run for President. You know, if God is that indecisive, he's probably for Mitt Romney!
Jay Leno
#17. If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one?
Loretta Chase
#18. No one gives us anything for free,
we become what we're able to do
for ourselves.
Julia Navarro
#19. There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#20. There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.
George F. Kennan
