Dullness Quotes

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

Nature, Reason, Private

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Alexander Pope

Joke, Loves, Gentle

The devil's name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee

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

Failure, Spiritual, Democracy

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

Success, Good, Government

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

Design, Try, Another

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

Crime, Editor, Ought

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.
Peter Jackson

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill

Him, Prudent, Marked

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

Work, Find, Against

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

Cool, Long, Black

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

Others, Himself, Cause

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