Dull

Famous quotes containing the word dull:

“Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)

“For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)