Quotes About Dull

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible. - C. S. Lewis

When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull.

In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations.

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.

The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had placed one by one in enviable niches of existence!

he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

and with a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

I can be black magic Or boring as hell.