« All Tedious Quotes · Oscar Wilde's Page
Tedious Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- 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,…
- A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
- 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…
- Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
- 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…
More Tedious Quotes
- 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… — Charles Baudelaire
- Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made… — 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… — 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… — Alexander Hamilton
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able… — William James
- Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as… — Gregg Easterbrook
- There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — 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