Books are a languid pleasure. [ Montaigne ]

Sleep, the fresh dew of languid love, the rain
Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again. [ Shelley ]

A languid heart is tender; sadness makes love ferment. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

My languid numbers have forgot to flow, and fancy sinks beneath a weight of woe. [ Pope ]

Literature has other aims than that of harmlessly amusing indolent, languid men. [ Carlyle ]

As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, esteem without love is languid and cold. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]