With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock.
Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable. But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.
Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
I see dull people as projects. . . to be reformed
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.
One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.