Dullness Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image “The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dullness Dullness Fool Fool Fool Whetstone Humor Inspirational Love Whetstone Wits Wit You like it
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact. But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“This is what is represented by The Magician, who represents potential power and emotional discipline over all he owns. When we combine The Fool… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare 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
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and… — Brenda Ueland 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
“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.” — Terry Pratchett 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