Dull Quotes

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

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

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

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

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

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.

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

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.

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.

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

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.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never 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.

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.

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.