Dullness 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

Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things — Jude Morgan

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

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. — Samuel Foote

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. — Voltaire

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 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