Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting... up with people, being able to stand things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances f...or many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm bored to extinction with Harrison. His limericks and puns are embarrassing.... But I'm fond of the bum, For, though dull as they come, He makes me feel bright by comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues... The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have ever watched an artist constructing with bits of cold stone a beautiful living picture you know that he works faithful...ly and carefully on the pattern from the wrong side and while he is working every inequality, every tint a little too dull is apparent to him as his picture grows, but he works on and on. And even when he finishes at last and looks down at the completed pattern he is not discouraged to see here a little crevice and there a little roughness, an open seam here, a tiny patch there where the bit of marble was too small. Now he pours his cement over it and smoothes [sic] it into every seam, and with faith puts his work to dry. Next day the pattern is turned and the perfect whole is given to view, needing only the polishing of a loving hand to make it ready to slip in place. So we should work faithfully on our pattern, cement it together with ourselves, and polish it with human kindness; and lo! the work slips into place seemingly a perfect whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go t...o bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don here-and-there, Don epileptic; Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic;... Don middle-class, Don sycophantic, Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Robert: It's been quite an adventure, our life together. Jane: A great adventure, Robert. Anxious sometimes and sad. Sometime...s unbelievably happy. And thank God, never dull or sordid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »