Tiresome Quotes

• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

  Stephen King

  Love, Friendship, Fake People

  "The Gunslinger". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Travel, Heaven, Prejudice

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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• The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, Yesterday, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

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• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  Samuel Beckett

  Regret, Long, Dying

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.158, Grove Press

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• A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Running, Long, Degrees

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• I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Too Much, Civility

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• This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

  Robert Wyatt

  Records, Pressure, Come Up

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• All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

  Voltaire

  Style, Kind

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• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Forever, Understanding

  Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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• Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, History, Vacant

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• The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  Arnold Bennett

  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains

  Arnold Bennett (2006). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

  Maimonides

  Reality, Men, Able

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.296, Moses Maimonides

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• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Media, Attention, Firsts

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

  Polly Adler

  Girl, Jobs, Husband

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• Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Wonder Woman, Saying Yes, Worn

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016

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• It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Happens, Ifs

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• This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

  Neal Stephenson

  Faculty Members, People, Research

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

  Jane Austen

  Kings, War, Men

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.87

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• There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Intelligent, Doe

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

  James Madison

  Atheism, Attendance, Devotion

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

  Ridley Scott

  Strong, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.

  Fanny Burney

  Country, Time, Way

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