
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 feeling
Even 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