(91 quotes found)
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”
William Shakespeare
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
Charles Darwin
“Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation”
Benjamin Franklin
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“The devil's name is dullness.”
Robert E. Lee
“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out”
Clive James
“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others”
Samuel Johnson
“We have been educated to such a fine / or dull / point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.”
Henry Miller
“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
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