Tedious Quotes

• People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Charming

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

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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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• I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

  Jon Krakauer

  College, Years, Parent

  "Into the Wild". Adventure, Biography, Drama, 2007.

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  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

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• If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Work, Holiday

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [226]

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• I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

  Brad Garrett

  Real, Believe, Negotiation

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Truth, Agreement

  James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

  Alexander Pope

  Food, Health, Anxiety

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• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Philosophical, Real Friends

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Monsters, Useless

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Mistake, Voice, Less Is More

  "What Fools Have Never Heard of Cynthia Ozick?". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. July 16, 2016.

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• Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

  William Shakespeare

  Boredom, Speech, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.250

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• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fun, Bored, Sometimes

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• To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

  Charles Lamb

  Sugar, Honey, Sweetness

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1855). “The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.54

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• Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

  Willard Gaylin

  Men, Egalitarianism, Differences

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• I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it.

  Densey Clyne

  Pain, Motivation, Believe

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• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Tasks, Useless

  James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Cream of the Jest: The Lineage of Lichfield, Two Comedies of Evasion”

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• Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.

  Gregory Maguire

  Beautiful, Blessed, Saint

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• Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Intelligent, Doe

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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• Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Gratitude, Lying

  "Will David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Be the Most Boring Book Ever?" by Lane Brown, www.vulture.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Judging, Rose

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.250, Editora Landmark LTDA

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