Tiresome Quotes
90 quotes by 83 authors
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
— Samuel Beckett
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Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
— Norman Rockwell
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What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same…
— John Oliver Killens
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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
— Michel de Montaigne
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic…
— Danny Baker
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Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for…
— Dominic Savio
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Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth,…
— Joe Abercrombie
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
— William Graham Sumner
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order…
— William Graham Sumner
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Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make…
— Mark Steyn
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Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without…
— Nancy Lancaster
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The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
— Arnold Bennett
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French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use…
— Peter Medawar
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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes…
— Polly Adler
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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
— Laozi
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