Dull

Famous quotes containing the word dull:

“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)

“The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)