Tedious Quotes

201 quotes by 168 authors

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of… — Charles Baudelaire
Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at… — Albert Brooks
Most screen violence is tedious. — Nick Cave
Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? — John Cleese
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
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
Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer… — Gregg Easterbrook
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. — William Shakespeare
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — Oscar Wilde
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. — William Shakespeare
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I… — Abraham Lincoln
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full… — Italo Svevo
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect… — Edward Abbey
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger

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