Top 123 Dullness Quotes & Sayings

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

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.

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

The devil's name is dullness.

Dullness is the enemy.

Dullness is a kind of luxury.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

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

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

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence of the light of our souls. Look around. We have lost the sparkle in our eyes, the passion in our marriages, the meaning in our work, the joy of our faith.

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.

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

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

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

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

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

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.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

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.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.