Frigid Quotes

• There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mediocrity, Speech, Painting

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Attitude, Mind, Needs

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• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Thinking, Dignity

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Inch Kenneth'

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• Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

  Albert Camus

  Nature, Burning, Given

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• It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Past, Peeking, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

  Robert Cormier

  Fire, White, Would Be

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Fade”, p.220, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

  Fanny Brice

  Sex, Fall, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

  Lord David Cecil

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Sound, Apathy

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 297 (1755)

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• Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, This Generation, Generations

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

  Florence King

  Morning, Sex, Cigarette Smoke

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

  Julie Burchill

  Women, Heartless, Littles

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Pregnancy, Taken

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

  Ogden Nash

  Coffee, Food, Eggs

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• The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

  Tom Robbins

  Valentine, Lucky, Causes

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• Or you can stay frigid," says WIll, his green eyes glinting with mischief. "You know. If you want." Christina throws a roll at him. He catches it and bites it. "Don't be mean to her," she says. "Frigidity is in her nature. Sort of like being a know-it-all is in yours." "I am not frigid!" I exclaim. "Don't worry about it," says Will. It's endearing. Look you're all red.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, Eye, Worry

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.49, Harper Collins

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• Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Regret, Hands, Bye

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Jealousy, Cold, Sunny

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

  Philip K. Chapman

  America, Years, Europe

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• If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Religious, Errors

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• Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Drama, Oratory, Delay

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• Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girl, Art, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept,
  Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drama, Passion, Bards

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.551

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• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  Marge Piercy

  Blood, Ice, Wind

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

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