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
Security and safety were the reward of dullness.
— Hanif Kureishi
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
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.
— Andre Agassi
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell
Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. — David Levithan
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
to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The past, rich with it's pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize. — Rukhsana Ahmad
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. — Harold Rosenberg
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell
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
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation. — Benjamin Franklin
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. — Samuel Foote
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. — Josephus Daniels
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. — Dorothy Parker
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
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). — Mike Curran
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. — William Shakespeare
What kind of life can you have in a house without books? — Sherman Alexie
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb. — Freddie Mercury
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it. — Samuel Beckett
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness. — Henry David Thoreau
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do. — George Eliot
Dullness is a kind of luxury. — Bharati Mukherjee
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. — George Eliot
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. — Charles Caleb Colton
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Her dullness made her own punishment. — Daphne Du Maurier
The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. — Peter Jackson
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. — Franz Grillparzer
And some cease feelingEven themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling — Wilfred Owen
Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had. — Terry Pratchett
Imagine a world full of Elizabeth Wakefields,' Lila said. 'Could you imagine a duller, more predictable place? I think I'd go crazy. — Francine Pascal
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. — George Eliot
