Dullness Not Quotes
Collection of top 42 famous quotes about Dullness Not
Dullness Not Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Dullness Not quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.
— David Foster Wallace
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
— Henry David Thoreau
Dullness is a misdemeanour.
— Ethel Wilson
Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good.
— George Eliot
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
— Alexander Pope
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
— Oscar Wilde
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
— Richard Powers
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
— Charles Lamb
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
— Charles Churchill
The devil's name is dullness.
— Robert E.Lee
Dullness is the enemy.
— Philip Johnson
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
— W. Somerset Maugham
He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.
— Gustave Flaubert
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
— Yukio Mishima
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
— Sherman Alexie
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
— Dorothy Parker
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
— William Shakespeare
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
— Edith Sitwell
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
— Mike Curran
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.
— Adolph Saphir
to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
— Josephus Daniels
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
— Edith Sitwell
One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.
— Frederick Lenz
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
— Benjamin Franklin
Society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.
— Geraldine Jewsbury
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
— George Orwell
