Dull Quotes

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

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

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

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

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

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.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

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.

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

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

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

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

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

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

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