Dullest Quotes

43 quotes by 35 authors

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the… — Jonathan Swift
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings — Wilhelm Steinitz
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember… — James A. Garfield
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it… — Lord Byron
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect… — Al Pacino
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience. — Peter Sellers
Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie… — Armond White
The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation. — David Hume
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary… — Wyndham Lewis
If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments… — Maya Angelou
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race.… — Arthur Helps
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they… — Henry David Thoreau
We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately,… — Reginald Horace Blyth
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I… — Ian Fleming
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,… — Henry David Thoreau
Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing… — Sean O'Casey
Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies! — Matthew Vaughn
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss! — Wyndham Lewis

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