#tiresome

All styles are good except the tiresome kind. ↗

— Voltaire

#good #kind #styles #tiresome

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#bias #content #contrary #flesh #hard

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ↗

— Voltaire

#eating #god #had #made #more

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#companies #completely #constant #find #hit

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. ↗

— Yann Martel

#array #big #big cities #cities #endless

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#courtesy #i #much #often #people

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #children #explaining #forever #grown-ups

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#happy #people #tiresome #whose

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ↗

— William Gaddis

#distressing #front #his #more #nothing

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#been #born #business #dying #found