Dull Quotes - Page 11

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.

I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice>

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.