Dull Quotes

• 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, History, World

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Men

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 108

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Ironic, Safe, Irony

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.210, McClure, Phillips & Company

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

  Raymond Chandler

  World, May, Being The Best

  1944 'The Simple Art of Murder'. In Atlantic Monthly, Dec.

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• American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Education, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Oswald Spengler

  Practice, Psychology, Crafts

  "The Decline of the West: Form and actuality".

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• I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Trying

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• 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.

  Matt Lucas

  People, Important, Want

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• Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

  Tabitha Soren

  News, Stories, Lines

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• You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

  Red Barber

  Games, Be Prepared, Great Ones

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

  Sidney Buchman

  Mystery, Left, Ifs

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• It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

  George Antheil

  George Antheil (1945). “Bad boy of music”

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• 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.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Alive, Bears

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

  Vance Havner

  Church Service, Boredom, Twelve

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• The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

  Karel Reisz

  Cinema, British, Conformist

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Problem, Boring, Monochrome

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• 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

  Inspirational, Men, Genius

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

  Charles de Lint

  Would Be, Mystery, Strive

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

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• For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Unrequited Love, Thinking

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• Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

  Clive James

  Wisdom, Fiction, Classic

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humility, Perfection, Human Nature

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• 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, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• What is known for certain is dull.

  Max Perutz

  Knowledge, Science, Certain

  "I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier". Book by Igor F. Tsigelny, p. 314, 1998.

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• Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Doe, Life Is

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

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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