Dull

Famous quotes containing the word dull:

“Whoe’er has travelled life’s dull round,
Where’er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.”
—William Shenstone (1714–1763)

“How dull it is to pause, to make and end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Here dull and hopeless he’d lie down and trace
How sidelong crabs had scrawled their crooked race;”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)