Dullness Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dullness Firsts Good husband Husband Marriage
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
