vitality quotes

Talking of the Comedy of 'The Rehearsal', he said 'It has not enough wit to keep it sweet.' This was easy;he therefore caught himself, and pronounced a more rounded sentence; 'It hasnot vitalityenoughtopreserve it from putrefaction.'

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,  Jun. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

- George Bernard Shaw
  JohnTanner to Octavius Robinson. Man and Superman, act1.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of a deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque,'An Apology for Idlers'.

The corset is†a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

-Thorstein Veblen
  Theory of the Leisure Class.