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Dullness is the enemy. -- Philip Johnson
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. -- Josephus Daniels
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. -- Walter Bagehot
Dullness is a misdemeanour. -- Ethel Wilson
Dullness is a kind of luxury. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. -- Oscar Wilde
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had. -- Terry Pratchett
Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices. -- David Levithan
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. -- Edith Sitwell
And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling -- Wilfred Owen
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. -- Edith Sitwell
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. -- Freddie Mercury
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born. -- William Plomer
The devil's name is dullness. -- Robert E. Lee
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. -- Alexander Pope
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. -- Charles Churchill
The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. -- Peter Jackson
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. -- George Eliot
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. -- Samuel Foote
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. -- Harold Rosenberg
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
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
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about. -- Liz Williams
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. -- Burl Ives
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness. -- Henry David Thoreau
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation. -- Benjamin Franklin
Security and safety were the reward of dullness. -- Hanif Kureishi
If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness... -- Shirley Conran
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. -- William Shakespeare
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. -- Aldo Leopold
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. -- Frank Capra
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse). -- Mike Curran
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. -- Andre Agassi
What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. -- Charles Lamb
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. -- George Orwell
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. -- Henry David Thoreau
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. -- Dorothy Parker
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. -- Charles Caleb Colton
For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder -- Henry Rollins
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. -- Charles Caleb Colton
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
The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. -- Anita Loos
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. -- Franz Grillparzer
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege. -- Adolph Saphir
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. -- John of Kronstadt
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it. -- Samuel Beckett
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness. -- Margaret Fuller
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. -- Jan Tschichold
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. -- George Eliot
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. -- George Eliot
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? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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. -- William Bernbach
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. -- George Santayana
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. -- Hildegard of Bingen
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. -- George Crabbe
Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day. -- Graham Greene
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. -- William Hazlitt
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. -- E. M. Forster
Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God's name did they want of me? -- Daniel Keyes
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none. -- Rose Kennedy
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter. -- Virginia Woolf
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. -- Frederick Lenz
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. -- Frederick Lenz

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