Tedious

Famous quotes containing the word tedious:

    “Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
    Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers’ absent hours
    More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
    O weary reckoning!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “If all the year were playing holidays,
    To sport would be as tedious as to work;
    But when they seldom come, they wished for come,
    And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)