We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to… — Mark Twain 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
Me like to smoke the bud but my eyes they get all red, my senses get dull and me forget what i… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
