Books Quote by Richard Norton Smith

“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

— Richard Le Gallienne

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

— Anatole France

“Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.”

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“The dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.”

— Abram Gitspof

“Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.”

— Susan Hubbard

“Poor old things! How many interesting events you have been tucked away from! But, on the other hand, what a lot of boring you…

— Pansy

“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.”

— James C. Malin

“Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman,…

— Wilkie Collins

“for in history there is nothing more pleasing than clear and brilliant brevity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.”

— Mary Shelley