[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and…

— Henry Adams

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

— William Gaddis

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

— Karolina Pliskova

I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren…

— James Anthony Froude

When you are involved with the film and the character, you don't find it tiresome at all. But if you think it's tiresome, it…

— Suresh Gopi

Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.

— Maureen O'Sullivan

“As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.”

— Anthony Liccione

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

— Henry Adams

Grown - ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaning things to them…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“It's hard, and it's painful, and it's tiresome, and it's lonely, and if on top of i, you really don't think you're gonna make…

— Zøe Haslie

Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no…

— Bisco Hatori

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

— Arnold Bennett

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

— Danny Baker