Dull Quotes - Page 13

• Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stupid, People, Firsts

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell The Third”

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• For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lasts, Politician, Newspapers

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Adventure, Dull Life, Should

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of touch with life; too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Appreciation, Clothes, Soul

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• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Dumb

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Jobs, Sleep, Insomnia

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Personality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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• Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge; and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Tired, Wish

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• Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

  Nora Roberts

  Marriage, Fire, Land

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• Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.

  Doug Sanders

  Golf, Use, Razors

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• I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Boys, Past, Men

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• Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

  John Henry Newman

  Beauty, Art, Nature

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Verses on Various Occasions”, p.15

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• How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Real

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Death, God

  Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

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• He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Thinking, Way

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 28 Mar. 1775)

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• All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow,
  All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
  All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Heart, Grieving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.40

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• But for the unquiet heart and brain
  A use in measured language lies;
  The sad mechanic exercise
  Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Anxiety, Together

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Elective Affinities: A Novel”, p.173

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• I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, People

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

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• The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

  Tom Peters

  Fun, Business, Creativity

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• Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Past, Men

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.125

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• I wish I could remember the first day,
  First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
  If bright or dim the season it might be;
  Summer or winter for aught I can say.
  So, unrecorded did it slip away,
  So blind was i to see and to forsee,
  So dull to mark the budding of my tree
  That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Famous Love, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti”, p.192, Penguin UK

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• For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Stupid, School

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• What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

  Bertrand Russell

  Educational, Stupid, School

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