Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.” — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Do kids ever tire of Christmas? The excitement of this job is never dull because in all the years and thousands of… — Dick Enberg Copy Share Image
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait… — Ben Nicholas Copy Share Image
The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds.… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of… — Robert Smythe Hichens Copy Share Image
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. — Burton Raffel Copy Share Image
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if your best friends end up elsewhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often. — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
