Boredom Quote by Anonymous

“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?”

— Alice Walker

“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you…

— Donald McCaig

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as…

— S. J. Perelman

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of…

— Andrew Haigh

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a…

— John Burroughs

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more…

— Charles Dickens

“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were…

— Edith Wharton

“Perhaps men like the Everseas were commonplace here in England. Perhaps finding a beautiful titled husband would be as simple as shaking an apple…

— Julie Anne Long

“Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.”

— Rudyard Kipling