"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone…" — William Shakespeare
"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."
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William Shakespeare
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one…
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that…
— George Santayana
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
— Francis Bacon
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The devil's name is dullness.
— Robert E. Lee
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an…
— George Eliot
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both…
— William Butler Yeats
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The…
— Howard Zinn
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
— Edith Sitwell
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from…
— Burl Ives
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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