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For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.
— Eric Linklater
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
— Martin Luther
Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.
— Mark Strickson
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
— Seneca The Younger
The generation into which I was born was tedious.
— Oscar Wilde
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
— Agatha Christie
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
— Hugh Grant
Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
— Billy Graham
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question... — T. S. Eliot
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question... — T. S. Eliot
You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.
— Jojo Moyes
Tis better, sir, to be brief than tedious.
— William Shakespeare
Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
One cannot simply perceive everything, to be able to perceive everything would be to tedious
— Isaac Thomas
I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.
— Maria Muldaur
The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.
— Soseki Natsume
The path of love is not a tedious path. It's a path of joy. It's a path of singing and dancing.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Fine lies beat tedious truths every time.
— Joe Abercrombie
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
— James Russell Lowell
Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?
— John Cleese
When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
— Ernie J Zelinski
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
— Seneca The Younger
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
— Bruce Lee
But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest. — Robert Herrick
These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest. — Robert Herrick
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
— Max Muller
I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.
— Anushka Sharma
How tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
— Agatha Christie
After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)
— Charles Stross
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
— Seneca The Younger
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
— Steve Lacy
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
— Roger L'Estrange
Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.
— Jessa Crispin
Existence is tedious, anyway.
— Anton Chekhov
One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.
— Cheryl Strayed
Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy
— Will Shortz
Web design is something that's super technical but can be super tedious if you have to deal with asshole clients.
— Jessica Hische
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles ...
— Edward Abbey
I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.
— Nick Offerman
It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.
— Morrissey
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
— Fiona Shaw
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
— Peter Dinklage
Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line
— Priyansh Shah
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands and abominably conceited when they are not.
— Oscar Wilde
What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious.
— Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Smith used English as one might use a code book, with tedious and imperfect translation for each symbol.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There in the dark and the quiet I felt I could forget all the tedious particulars and just feel the presence of his mortal and immortal being.
— Marilynne Robinson
Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference.
— Oscar Wilde
I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
— John C. Reilly
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
— Mark Strand
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's the same thing. Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed.
— Nicholas Sparks
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.
— Mike Davidson
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.
— Dennis Miller
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
— Charles Caleb Colton
It's things like this that makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.
— Scott Lynch
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
— Alexander Pope
Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.
— Orson Scott Card
(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Unlike you, I don't intentionally bore myself with tedious information,
— Lindsay Buroker
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
— Anatole France
(Motherhood) I want her to have this thing I have that's so ordinary and tedious and aggravating, and then, so divine.
— Kelly Corrigan
My son . . . guilt, in proper measure, can be a useful emotion. However, when indulged to excess it becomes self-defeating, and even worse, tedious.
— Lisa Kleypas
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.
— Johnny Knoxville
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
— Stevie Smith
Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
— Mara Wilson
And anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.
— Sophie Kinsella
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
— Hugh Mackay
Apparently too much candour can become tedious, or so Lady Emma tells me.
— Sharon Kay Penman
The result will be something unutterably tedious.
— George Gissing
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
— William Shakespeare
I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.
— Hanya Yanagihara
After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage,
— Neal Stephenson
Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
— Zachary Knighton
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
— Richard Asher
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
— William Shakespeare
What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
— John Milton
Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.
— Faina Ranevskaya
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
— Peter Shaffer
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
— Dorothea Dix
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid
— William Shakespeare
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
— William Shakespeare
All is tedious, in this relation that is forced upon me.
— Samuel Beckett