(95 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
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”
Sir Walter Scott
“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
“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
“It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull”
Joseph Conrad
“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
