Dullest Quotes
43 Dullest quotes by 35 unique authors
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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
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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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
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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
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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
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To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
— Peter Sellers
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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
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The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.
— David Hume
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!
— Matthew Vaughn
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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
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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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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven…
— Emma Goldman
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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about…
— Ian Fleming
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The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
— Andy Rooney
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and…
— Mark Twain
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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Dullest Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 43 Dullest Quotes, led by these top contributors: