Danger Quote by William Congreve Download Open image “I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.” — William Congreve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Danger Dull Growing Serious
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does. — Conor Oberst 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
I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
Growth is a painful process. If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all. — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo” — william congreve Copy Share Image
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root? — William Congreve Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share Image
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