Dull Quotes

903 Dull quotes by 659 unique authors

All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and… — Veronica Roth
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. — Elizabeth I
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas. — Sylvia Plath
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop. — Benjamin Franklin
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead… — Rajneesh
I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the… — Lucy Larcom
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. — Dean Acheson
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing.… — Mary Wortley Montagu
O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life.… — Henry Ward Beecher
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of… — Susan Sontag
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. — Henry David Thoreau
The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of… — Tom Robbins
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons… — Sun Tzu
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. — Charles Churchill
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. — Samuel Johnson
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him.… — Samuel Johnson
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a… — Chip Kidd
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be… — Iain McGilchrist
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side. — Martin Seligman
When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and… — Keeley Hawes
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. — Italo Calvino

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