| 1. | There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 2. | Candide was very pleased with an actress who played Queen Elizabeth in a somewhat insipid tragedy sometimes acted. - from Candide by Voltaire |
| 3. | Hail him, who keeps a steadfast mind Thou, else, dost well the devil-nature wear Naught so insipid in the world I find As is a devil in despair. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |