Quotes with dullness

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  • Alexander Pope Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bharati Mukherjee Dullness is a kind of luxury.
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    Bharati Mukherjee
    Indian American writer and professor (1940 - 2017)
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  • Oscar Wilde Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • O. Sitwell Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both.
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  • George Eliot In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Conrad It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Harold Rosenberg No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
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    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Charles Churchill Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Robert E. Lee The devil's name is dullness.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • William Shakespeare The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Dorothy Parker Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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