Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull.… — Harry Connick, Jr.
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. — Joseph Conrad
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull… — Charles Horton Cooley
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating. — Mason Cooley
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? — Mason Cooley
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where… — Robert Crumb
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. — Edna Ferber
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting… — E. M. Forster
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos… — Mark Haddon
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. — Heinrich Heine
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. — Robert A. Heinlein
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. — Alfred Hitchcock
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. — Christopher Hitchens
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. — Aldous Huxley
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull. — LL Cool J
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. — Clive James
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. — Helen Keller
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running… — Charles Krauthammer
Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing… — Hedy Lamarr
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. — Charles Lamb
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We… — Hugh Laurie
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. — C.S. Lewis

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