Famous quotes containing the words thin and/or monotonous:
“You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.”
—John Vanbrugh (16631726)
“Dostoevskis lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignityall this is difficult to admire.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)