Tedious Quotes

201 quotes by 168 authors

Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine… — Virginia Woolf
Blissâ€”a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, consciousâ€”lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most… — David Foster Wallace
It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Itâ€™s the same thing. Passion is passion. Itâ€™s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesnâ€™t matter where itâ€™s directed. — Nicholas Sparks
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure… — James M. Barrie
In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations."… — Cassandra Clare
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant,… — Oscar Wilde
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it. — Oscar Wilde
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious… — Oscar Wilde
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing… — Daniel Handler
Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go… — Michelle Sagara
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have… — Milan Kundera
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow… — Margaret Atwood
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid… — Suzanne Collins
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the… — William Blake
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Donâ€™t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,… — Oscar Wilde
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold,… — George R. R. Martin
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is… — Oscar Wilde
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead… — Daniel Handler

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