Dull Quote by Ernest Hemingway

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

— Oscar Wilde

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to…

— William Hazlitt

“Burgundy makes you think of silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk of them and Champagne makes you do them.”

— Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible…

— Ernest Hemingway

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last…

— Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

— Beth Moore

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity…

— Heidi Julavits

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,…

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To…

— Joe Hill