#dullness

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

— Samuel Foote

#dull #dullness #himself #only #others

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#ever #gentle #joke #loves

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#critics #degree #determination #dullness #fascinating

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#dullness #image #only #the only thing #thing

Imagine a world full of Elizabeth Wakefields,' Lila said. 'Could you imagine a duller, more predictable place? I think I’d go crazy. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#sweet-valley #imagination

Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire. (The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)" (Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738) ↗

— Voltaire

#dullness #restraint #writing #secret

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. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bad one #dullness #excellence #good #good sign

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

#dullness #nature #private #quarrels #reason

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. ↗

— Burl Ives

#birds #black #blew #center #cool

الضجر والنفور كأسلوب حياة يليق بهيبة متخفية لشجرة ↗

— Eman Herzallah

#dullness #lifestyle #trees #lifestyle