#dullness

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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The devil's name is dullness. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#dullness #name

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#dullness #editor #hung #only #ought

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#bad-writing #dullness #humor #writing #age

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

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

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

— George Eliot

#dullness #nature #private #quarrels #reason