Contagious Yawning

Famous quotes containing the words contagious and/or yawning:

“Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)