International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“It's hard, and it's painful, and it's tiresome, and it's lonely, and if on top of i, you really don't think you're… — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt 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
I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet… — Jello Biafra 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
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or… — John Oliver Killens Copy Share Image
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. — Plautus Copy Share Image
There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome. — Luc de Clapiers 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
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
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
I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting… — George Eliot 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
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
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
