Quotes About Dullness

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

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Civility's nearly as dull as sobriety and I cannot—will not—be labelled dull. I have peper and piones, and a pound of garlik; a ferthing-worth of fenel-seed for fasting dayes, but dullness have I none: nor am I overfond of being discussed.

She is a very conscientious person," said Miss Lydgate, "but she has rather an unfortunate knack of making any subject sound dull. It's a great pity, because she is exceptionally sound and dependable. However, that doesn't greatly matter in her present appointment; she holds a librarianship somewhere—Miss

She found Lucy to be about as interesting as a toothache.

His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people leading lives of surpassing dullness.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

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.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.