Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. — Isaac Asimov
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… — Graham Greene
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live… — Oscar Wilde
Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette,… — Truman Capote
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or… — Jonathan Edwards
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. — Edgar Allan Poe
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the… — Charles Bukowski
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the… — Julio Cortazar
...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make… — D.E. Stevenson
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without… — Diana Gabaldon
It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or… — Daniel Handler
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them… — Orson Scott Card
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. — Hunter S. Thompson
Never dull your shine for somebody else. — Tyra Banks
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still… — Alan Moore
Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What… — Ayn Rand
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless… — Hilaire Belloc
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby,… — Orhan Pamuk
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people… — Ernest Hemingway
If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. — Christina Dodd

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