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It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
He could have had "dull" tattooed across his forehead, but that would have made him too exciting.
Too bad she was dull--dull girls were unbearable--certainly pretty though.
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
Truth is always duller than fiction.
How dull it is to have people defining you.
dull - she did not, with equal longing, wish to be a part of the whispering spinster chorus at the edge of other, more interesting lives. She
The dull, hazy light played along the polished blade like water.
If all work and no play makes you dull,
Then you're on the wrong job.
Plain as a pike-staff.
Security and safety were the reward of dullness.
I see dull people," she yawned.
Only the dull don't doubt!
Her dullness made her own punishment.
Tolerate the dull: they too have their story
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
I'm so dull, the fucking cat runs away about three times a month just to get a little excitement. And
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
To be dull is easy,
to be active requires
tremendous work.
Gray, the colour of forgetting.
The tongues of hell are dull.
The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.
I have been mostly dull lately. Like a butter knife. And hoping to find, when called upon, something more in my arsenal than a butter knife. Unless my opponent is actually butter. Then that would be fine. Room temperature butter.
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
Jaded. I never understood the term. Jade is pretty and worth something, yes? I was rusted if I was anything. Too long in the rain. Going out in an orange blaze of muted, anonymous, common-as-dirt oxidation.
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
an overcast luminance, a subdued warmth
Frightfully pale and perpetually odd
Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it ...
I abhor the dull routine of existence.
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.
I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.
I like my life dull.'
'If you like your life dull, then that can only mean that you do not understand the nature of excitement.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things
Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver.
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
When you sleep, your dreams are those of a dullard
Dark with excessive bright.
Interesting," said I, "is a term I reserve to describe people or things so dull or ordinary, that I can find no more promising attribution.
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
To make dictionaries is dull work.
little too undistinguished, a little
On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
How shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty?
The stone bench is gray. The grass is gray. My life is dirty gray
inert and seemingly lifeless.
Yes, it is a dull beginning. I say, let us pretend that it is the end.
Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Dull people filled him with terror.
Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.
Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.
abysmally beshitted.
All dark and comfortless.
Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: "Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the
His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has seen it all before.
to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)
We woke as if from a nightmare only to find that the ugly are still not beautiful and the dull still do not sparkle.
The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
Rough as a badger's arse
You're harshing my mellow.
Being successful is kind of dull.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
Only the rustle of those colours waving in the air, impenetrable, lighter than nothingness
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
Dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Better gray than garishness.
My dreams were dull as my everyday life.
Rotten like fish eyes in a barrel.
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
with a seeping glitter of dark blood,
Shine: clear dew aching with light.
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.