#dullness

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

الضجر والنفور كأسلوب حياة يليق بهيبة متخفية لشجرة ↗

— Eman Herzallah

#dullness #lifestyle #trees #lifestyle

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#him #marked #mayor #prudent

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. ↗

— Richard Powers

#arrange #constraint #design #dullness #each

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

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