Dull Quotes

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain

Call, Dumb, Animal

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Life, Tedious, Ear

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

Happiness, Wise, Mean

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis

Long, Adversity, Weather

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Experience, Woman

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Marilyn Monroe

Often, Silent, Movie

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats

Dance, Wind, Mountains

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Work, Mind, Give

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein

Real, Strange, Wonderful

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn

Life, Age, Happy

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin

Read, Found, Tried

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous Huxley

Daily, Habit, Luxurious

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Soul, Show, Once

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx

Good, Philosophy, Seems

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon

Men, Anger, Poor

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death, Nothing, Advice

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Time, Jealous, Same

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster

Love, Bad, Boring

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock

Life, Drama, Cut

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Husband, Wife

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
Charles Bukowski

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Barbara Bush

Human, Problems, Rather

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

History, Lies, Books

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Perfection, Quite

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
Mason Cooley

Talent, Might, Irritating

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men, Society, Often

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
Hugh Laurie

Good, Happy, Hate

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service

Life, Long, Woman

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock

Life, Drama, Cut

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection, Grave, Defect

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