Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality. — Caroline B. Cooney
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull… — Jane Austen
Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what… — Charles M. Schulz
He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself… — Eric Weiner
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them. — Nancy Mitford
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've… — MaryJanice Davidson
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know… — William Hazlitt
Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put… — Rebecca Solnit
I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but… — Julie Anne Peters
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;… — Mark Twain
They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear… — Lauren Oliver
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a… — Nick Hornby
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain. — William Peter Blatty
You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be… — Dean Koontz
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. — Thomas Hobbes
And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who… — Paula McLain
So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all… — Lewis Carroll
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were… — Dennis Lehane
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten. — William Shakespeare
Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She… — Kiersten White
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one… — Ezra Pound
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people… — Anne Lamott
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way… — Elizabeth Kostova

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