Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats. — Louisa May Alcott
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time… — John Steinbeck
The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called… — Lewis Carroll
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years. — J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page… — John Steinbeck
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull. — Sue Monk Kidd
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull. — Cassandra Clare
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity… — Cynthia Heimel
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse… — William Congreve
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of… — Charles Dickens
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day… — George Bernard Shaw
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no… — Meredith Ann Pierce
Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. — Jim Butcher
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my… — Edgar Allan Poe
Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear… — Mary Karr
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of… — Heidi Julavits
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings… — Shel Silverstein
This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the… — Sophie Kinsella
Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull… — Mitch Albom
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there… — Benjamin Hoff

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