Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of… — Jane Austen
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. — Stanley Kubrick
I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared.… — Cassandra Clare
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,… — Graham Greene
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed… — John Fowles
Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a… — Jeff Lindsay
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for… — Christopher Hitchens
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the… — Sarah Dessen
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.… — Louisa May Alcott
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the… — Theodore Dreiser
People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. — Alice Munro
I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything… — Gena Showalter
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine… — Alain de Botton
If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. — Scott Lynch
Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with… — Jerry Bridges
...and then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. “Love this song,” Todd said, like it… — Daniel Handler
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they… — Samuel R. Delany
Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull… — Kristen Britain
Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that… — Lauren Groff
Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he… — Cinda Williams Chima
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. — Brandon Sanderson
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to… — Emile M. Cioran
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment… — Paolo Giordano
Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale… — Lisa Ann Sandell
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull.… — Alain de Botton

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