Quotes About Tedious

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

N]othing is more odious to the auditor, than the artless tongue of a tedious dolt, which dulls the delight of hearing, and slacketh the desire of remembering.

Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't take the boredom.

Most people are boring and stupid.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.

Wait, it gets duller.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

Mass movements are always so unhip. That's what was great about punk. It was an antimovement, because there was knowledge there from the very beginning that with mass appeal comes all those tedious folks who need to be told what to think. Hip can never be a mass movement. And culturally, the gay liberation movement and all the rest of the movements were the beginning of political correctness, which was just fascism to us. Real fascism. More rules.

Perhaps one night, when you were very small, someone tucked you into bed and read you a story called "The Little Engine That Could," and if so then you have my profound sympathies, as it is one of the most tedious stories on Earth. The story probably put you right to sleep, which is the reason it is read to children, so I will remind you that the story involves the engine of a train that for some reason has the ability to think and talk.

Los libros sobre leyes son muy largos, muy aburridos y muy difíciles. Es una de las razones por las que muchos abogados ganan tanto dinero. El dinero es un incentivo —la palabra «incentivo» significa aquí «recompensa ofrecida para que hagas algo que no quieres hacer»Ã¢â'¬â€ para leer libros largos, aburridos y difíciles.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

he's about as entertaining as ten pounds of asphalt.

Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack.  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon.  Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.  Don't try it.  You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.  They do it so well in the daily papers. 

What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! gossip is charming! History is merely gossip, but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference.

One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say--and said it (so far as the women were concerned) at great length...

As a general rule, political talk appears to me to be of all talk the most dreary and the most profitless.

Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.