"Banality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... charm—that of quiet seriousness and simplicity. I remember how strange it used to seem to me to hear her discoursing on theatres and the weather to my brother Woloda! I knew that of all things in the world he most despised and shunned banality, and that Varenika herself used to make fun of forced conversations on the weather and similar matters. Why, then, when meeting in society, did they both of them talk such intolerable nothings, and, ...
— Youth • Leo Tolstoy
... quadrangles, and puts on the semblance of a male human being as distinguished from an asexual pedagogue. Professor Walter Raleigh is improving. Professor Elton has never fallen to the depths of sterile and pretentious banality which are the natural and customary level of the remaining three.... You think I am letting my pen run away with me? Not at all. That is nothing to what I could say if I tried. Mr. J.W. Mackail might have been one of our major critics, but there again—he, too, prefers the security of a Government ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett
... settle, and without a word—for words he realised, could do no more than heighten the tragic banality of the situation—he went to the door, ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... the bottom was crumpled into folds which did well enough for little waves breaking on the shore. These waves now began to be agitated, and gradually rose gustily and advanced until they had covered the dead giant. It was a very good effect and avoided the banality of removing the body in sight of the audience; it looked as though the wind had risen and the depths had swallowed him. And this, as I afterwards was told, is what happens to the giant's ...
— Diversions in Sicily • H. Festing Jones
... The banality did not affect Mrs Jones to laughter, as the speaker had a fear it might have done. She seized ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
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