Cause Quote by Samuel Foote

“They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .”

— Pat Conroy

“Only he who has become straightforward himself, can improve others.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has “seen it all before.”

— Herman Koch

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not…

— Lionel Shriver

“With his friends, an egotist. With love, lazy. With brightness, dull. With power, passive. With his own soul, evasive.”

— Saul Bellow

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber

“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining…

— Jude Morgan

“Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.”

— Molière

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“Or if he takes whatever dull job he's stuck with -- and they are all, sooner or later, dull -- and, just to keep…

— Robert Prisig