“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a… — Adolph Saphir Copy Share Image
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“There was present that night at Henley's, by right of propinquity or of accident, a man full of the secret spite of… — W. B. (William Butler) Yeats Copy Share Image
“Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them—and as one day we must always see them, only far better—should… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
