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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
A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
— Sally Phillips
An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could have almost written a poem.
— Matt Haig
It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
— Steven Morrissey
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible
— C.S. Lewis
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
— Mario Cuomo
Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust. — Hilda Doolittle
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust. — Hilda Doolittle
The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.
— Richard M. Nixon
Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.
— Dagobert D. Runes
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
— Burton Raffel
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
— John Osborne
Dull people filled him with terror.
— Thomas Wolfe
This is a hell of dull talk ... How about some of that champagne?
— Ernest Hemingway,
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
— Dominic Cooper
If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we'd live in a dull world.
— Tom McCarthy
The dull parts of life spread out in your memory and crowd out the exciting parts until they just seem like little flashes. (Ron Weasley)
— G. Norman Lippert
I see dull people," she yawned.
— Robert Dunbar
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
— Brian F. O'Byrne
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
— Brandon Sanderson
Now, my intention was to drink just enough to dull the senses, but intentions should never be mixed with alcohol.
— Kirt J. Boyd
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
— P. J. O'Rourke
- What is it about wine, Harry?
- What d'ya mean?
- What is it that cures us?
- Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots. — Colum McCann
- What d'ya mean?
- What is it that cures us?
- Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots. — Colum McCann
I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
— Christina Dodd
On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.
— Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
— Oscar Wilde
Most people considered him quite dull and negligible, but he possessed the supreme virtue in William's eyes of not objecting to William.
— Anonymous
Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand.
— Peter Richards
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
— James Joyce
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
— Mark Twain
It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
— Debi Gliori
She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.
— Lucy Prebble
A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
— Philip Sidney
A masterpiece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
— Gertrude Stein
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
If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.
— Neil Jordan
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
— Robert Anton Wilson
The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
— Charles Bukowski
The worst change about her, however, was in her eyes. The light was gone from them. They were dull. Empty.
— Maddy Lanslots
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
— Nancy Mitford
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
— Lord Hailsham
Whoever invented karaoke is evil. They should be shot between the eyes with a dull bullet.
— Emma Chase
If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad
— George Orwell
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
— Heinrich Heine
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.
— Daniel Goleman
It's the dull knife that cuts you.
— N.D. Wilson
A story about my life would be utterly dull.
— James McAvoy
Life is not dull. Be thankful for that.
— Jo Bower
Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.
— Harold Dull
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
— Charles Churchill
Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest - your best for His glory.
— Oswald Chambers
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
— David Lilienthal
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
— William Peter Blatty
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
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
— Wilfred Owen
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.
— David Eagleman
Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.
— Erika Lopez
While you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.
— Guy Kawasaki
That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
— Edith Wharton
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
— Anatole France
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
— Sid Caesar
Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
— Samuel Johnson
There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.
— Esther Meynell
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
— Dean Acheson
The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.
— Dale Carnegie
However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.
— Edward Young
April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot
In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
— Benjamin Franklin
As dull as moon face, never seem to change.
— Toba Beta