Dullness Quotes

78 quotes by 70 authors

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of… — Walter Bagehot
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these… — William James
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… — Philip Yancey
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection… — George Santayana
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things… — Francis Bacon
The devil's name is dullness. — Robert E. Lee
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And… — George Eliot
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side!… — Howard Zinn
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a… — Burl Ives
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of… — Rose Kennedy
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained… — Lu Tong
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment.… — Dogen
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put… — E. M. Forster
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the… — Jan Tschichold

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