#dull

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#hope #i #interesting #lot #memoirs

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ↗

— William Congreve

#dull #marriage #play #prologue #very

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#great #i #loved #more #more and more

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky. ↗

— Thom Filicia

#boring #dull #far #more #tacky

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#dull #dullness #himself #only #others

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#fleet #man #melancholy #must #rare

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#devil #dull #jealous #mad #possessed

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#campaigning #devil #dull #excellent #long

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#consequence #dull #granted #rather #revolution