In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.” — Samuel Foote 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
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
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
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Margaret is the first person who understands that my dull universe is the place where self-loathing blends with sitcoms and dullness like… — Molly Jong-Fast 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
“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
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
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
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
Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and… — Karen Horney 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
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind,… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
