Top 151 Tiresome Quotes & Sayings

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

I don't like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Things like, when a total stranger says, 'I want you to record something for my forthcoming wedding,' that can be a bit tiresome. But it's a high-class problem. It doesn't hurt my feelings.

Traveling the road can be quite tiresome.

Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.

Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

It really gets tiresome to be constantly accused of spreading negativity about Barack Obama and the country. He's doing that on his own. We just chronicle it here.

When you are involved with the film and the character, you don't find it tiresome at all. But if you think it's tiresome, it will be.

A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.