Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him… — Helen Keller
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily… — Epictetus
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail. — Heinrich Heine
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. — O. Henry
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino
On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?"… — George Mikes
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful… — Cyril Connolly
It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of… — Desmond Morris
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. — John Galsworthy
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those… — Jose Marti
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony. — Jonathan Raban
Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the… — Stephen Jay Gould
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in… — Queen Elizabeth II
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... — Andre Gide
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when… — Frederick Lenz
If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring. — Frederick Lenz
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. — Vance Havner
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. — Ninette de Valois
If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on… — Andrew Greeley
[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause. — Peter Medawar
The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and… — Isaac Asimov
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind… — Malcolm Mclaren
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. — Louis Auchincloss
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen… — Billy Childish

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