Dull Quotes · Page 8

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

— Mason Cooley

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I'm not very good at being dull.

— Steven Morrissey

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice>

— Steven Wright

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

— Alex Katz

I'm incredibly dull and I very rarely leave the house. I don't go out, I don't drink, I'm really boring.

— Paul Kaye

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

— Hill Harper

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

— Benjamin Franklin

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

— Somerset Maugham

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

— Haruki Murakami

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

— Anonymous

“Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.”

— Enid Shomer

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

— William Shakespeare

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion…

— George Eliot

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the…

— David Lilienthal

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull…

— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the…

— Oswald Spengler

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor…

— Philip Larkin

“I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be…

— James Joyce

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my…

— Mick Jagger

I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I…

— Gail Carson Levine

Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia.…

— Beryl Markham

And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes…

— Libba Bray

I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one -…

— Keith Devlin

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not…

— Rachel McAdams

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous… Trivial things take up all your time and dull your…

— Cynthia Heimel

“Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had…

— Sarah Ruhl

Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

— Francine Mathews

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

— Rachel Johnson

“A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is deemed a dull affair,” he had said.”

— George R.R. Martin

“everything before you was just dull, empty, mediocre … it was nothing.”

— E.L. James

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

— Beth Moore

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

— O. Henry

“What a dull place the world would be if all the mysteries in it were solved.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

— Steven Morrissey

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

— Ian Fleming