Dulness Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled… — Herman Melville
• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour… — Washington Irving
• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls… — George Eliot
• Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. — 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

Who Wrote These Dulness Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Dulness Quotes as follows:

• 1 Dulness Quote by Herman Melville
• 1 Dulness Quote by Washington Irving
• 1 Dulness Quote by George Eliot
• 1 Dulness Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee
• 1 Dulness Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Dulness Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley