#dullness

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#poetry #freedom

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

— Samuel Foote

#dull #dullness #himself #only #others

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

#bad one #dullness #excellence #good #good sign

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

#dullness #nature #private #quarrels #reason

The devil's name is dullness. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#dullness #name

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#dullness #editor #hung #only #ought

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#bad-writing #dullness #humor #writing #age

What kind of life can you have in a house without books? ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#boredom #dullness #inspiration #life #necessity