Quotes About Dullness

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

And it gets so gloomy and so monotonous. Probably the casino---

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.

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

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

A clean house is the sign of a boring person.

So it was stale time then, day in, day out

Gray suit, gray face, gray life . . . Alan Blunt seemed to belong to an entirely colorless world.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

I won't have dull people, she used to say, I'm dull myself.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.

People can be so frightened of failing that they do nothing, or choose something so dull they have no chance of shining. - Molly

The sunlight bores the daylights out of me

the living death of safety and stagnation.

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

He was here to give aid, to clarify and move, and to make certain if he could that the greatness of humankind would not entirely evaporate in bourgeois well-being, et cetera. There was nothing of the average in Ravelstein's life. He did not accept dullness and boredom. Nor was depression tolerated.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

I have really sensitive skin, so all I use is Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser and Moisturizing Cream, and then during the day, I'll use CeraVe with SPF, but nothing crazy. My skin also gets really dry, so I do a mask from time to time - or if my skin is feeling dull, then I'll put one on.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.