Quotes About Dullness

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

Their tameness is shocking to me.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the latter how could he maintain his superiority?

the only cheap life was a dull life.

To me the only death is monotony.

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

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But there is no closure, no forgetting. One mourns those one has loved who have died until one joins them. It happens soon enough.

I am genuinely dull. Duller than the world's dullest-ever thing, so dull it's not worth the time it takes to imagine it.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

There is no way to make this story interesting.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.