A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Grown - ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaning things to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome… — Karolina Pliskova Copy Share Image
Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same.… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
“they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? — James Madison Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome… — George Will Copy Share Image
If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take',… — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine… — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture. — Caroline Seebohm Copy Share Image
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
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