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• We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

  Joseph Addison

  Stupid, People, Next Steps

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1868). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.197

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• The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Dying, Scene, Oxymoron

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

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• I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

  Heinrich Heine

  Book, Reading, Blessing

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• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Writing, Life Is Short

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Recipes, Journalism

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 (quoting from 'The Londoner', no. 1), in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 2 (1976) p. 57

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Jealousy, Time, Mad

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

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

  Karl Marx

  Philosophy, Greek, Tragedy

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, London : Lawrence & Wishart

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• 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

  Perfection, Irony, Aim

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

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• Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

  John Dos Passos

  Eye, May, Advertising

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

  Herbert Read

  Life, Literature, Individual

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

  Robert W. Service

  Song, Wine, Long

  Robert William Service, “The Sum-Up”

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

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Life, Glamorous

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• An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Enemy

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.303, China Books

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

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

  Dean Acheson

  Politics, Requirements, Firsts

  In Observer 21 June 1970

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• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stupid, People, Intelligence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.127

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• Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

  Red Barber

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Succeed, Brilliant, Public Speaking

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• I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

  Bryan Procter

  Love, Sea, Literature

  Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

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• Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Waiting Around, Long, Process

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

  Tom Jones

  Wine, Men, Desire

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

  F. H. Bradley

  Writing, Heart, Blood

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley No. 25, 1930.

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