The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome. — August Bournonville 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
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
When you are involved with the film and the character, you don't find it tiresome at all. But if you think it's… — Suresh Gopi 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
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
“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
“As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don’t COME… — Meg Cabot 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
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
Even on the most tiresome of days, I need to give my daughter and husband one hundred percent of my energy. They… — Allison Holker 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
I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never… — Hugh Laurie 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
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
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
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 don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long,… — Nate Ruess 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
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
“She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
“How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal...!” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whenever you listen to a CD or an album, it gets tiresome hearing the same thing over and over and over again. — John 5 Copy Share Image
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.” — Lydia Maria Francis Child 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
I don't like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“Denigrating free will by confusing it with ka was worse than blasphemy; it was tiresome and stupid.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. — Benjamin Franklin 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
