#dull

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#dull #dullness #himself #only #others

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#fleet #man #melancholy #must #rare

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#devil #dull #jealous #mad #possessed

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#campaigning #devil #dull #excellent #long

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#consequence #dull #granted #rather #revolution

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#everything #indeed #known #left #life

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#descends #dull #earth #genius #inert

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#because #bore #dull #frankly #hold

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#against #anesthetic #blinding #brings #conscience

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. ↗

— Karl Marx

#ending #good #greek #meet #met