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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. -- C. S. Lewis
I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. -- Martha Washington
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. -- Mark Twain
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. -- Karl Marx
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. -- Edna Ferber
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. -- Oprah Winfrey
Dull winter will re-appear. -- Horace
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical. -- Blaise Pascal
If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade -- Ian MacKaye
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting. -- Derren Brown
Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast. -- Sara Coleridge
The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy. -- Jack Kerouac
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. -- John Donne
In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true. -- Stephen Fry
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed. -- William Matthews
Never dull your shine for somebody else. -- Tyra Banks
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. -- Clive James
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. -- Anatole France
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. -- Aldous Huxley
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out. -- Alfred Hitchcock
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. -- Charles Bukowski
All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy. -- Hill Harper
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. -- Pearl S. Buck
The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating. -- Mason Cooley
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -- William Shakespeare
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life. -- Ian Fleming
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. -- Charles Lamb
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. -- Aphra Behn
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. -- Rumi
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full. -- Robert W. Service
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. -- Heinrich Heine
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side. -- Martin Seligman
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull. -- Marcus Brigstocke
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. -- Helen Keller
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. -- J. Paul Getty
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. -- Herbert Read
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. -- Christopher Hitchens
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. -- Robert A. Heinlein
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. -- Sean Penn
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. -- Walter Scott
Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. -- Natalie Dormer
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. -- Robert Fulghum
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. -- Virginia Woolf
I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school. -- Trinny Woodall
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I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? -- Hugh Laurie
A dull ax never loves grindstones. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Psychological knowledge has made us dull. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
To make dictionaries is dull work. -- Samuel Johnson
Being successful is kind of dull. -- Nolan Bushnell
Life would be dull without them. -- Oscar Wilde
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull. -- Bette Davis
What is known for certain is dull. -- Max Perutz
Too much shine, can dull the soul -- Big K.R.I.T.
Baseball is dull only to dull minds. -- Red Barber
I'm not very good at being dull. -- Steven Morrissey
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain. -- William Peter Blatty
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. -- Frank Herbert
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. -- Oscar Wilde
The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches. -- Antoine Rivarol
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten. -- William Shakespeare
Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated. -- Herbert von Karajan
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger. -- Lord Hailsham
I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. -- Charles Spurgeon
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. -- Italo Calvino
The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times. -- Jan Karon
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. -- Karel Reisz
All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons! -- Henry Ward Beecher
You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting. -- James Brown
The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. -- Tom Robbins
I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed -- Ben Elton
A story about my life would be utterly dull. -- James McAvoy
A life lived in love will never be dull. -- Leo Buscaglia
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it ... -- Katherine Anne Porter
I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice> -- Steven Wright
All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech. -- Jacob Braude
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out -- Clive James
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. -- Frank Gehry
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull. -- Diana Vreeland
I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people. -- Mia Kirshner
I find it dull when my heart meets my mind -- Laura Marling
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -- Elizabeth I
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions. -- A. A. Gill
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation -- George Bernard Shaw
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. -- H. L. Mencken
"Exciting" is a dull world to describe the wrestling business. -- Alexander Nderitu
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. -- Gertrude Stein
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. -- Stanley Kubrick
I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions. -- Sylvia Plath
I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils. -- Nancy Lam
We dull our lives by the way we conceive them. -- James Hillman
All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. -- John Ruskin
What a dull world if we knew all about geese! -- Aldo Leopold
Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull. -- Frank Robinson
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? -- Mason Cooley
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! -- Abraham Cowley
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ... -- Mary Renault
My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity. -- John Forbes Nash
To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky. -- Thom Filicia
Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits. -- Anthony J. Carson
The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. -- Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull. -- Simon Hoggart
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. -- Dean Acheson
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds. -- Red Smith
Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence. -- Charles Bukowski
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning. -- Oscar Wilde

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