Quotes of Tedium - somelinesforyou

“ A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ”

- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“ The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Rock 'n' Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. ”

- Vance Packard

“ Work keeps at bay, three great evils — boredom, vice and need. ”

- Unknown

“ I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore. ”

- La Rochefoucauld

“ I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ”

- Leo Stein

“ Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun. ”

- E.V. Knox

“ One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ As for boredom... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. ”

- John Jay Chapman

“ Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. ”

- A.G. Buckham

“ Boredom... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Dullness is a misdemeanour. ”

- Ethel Wilson

“ The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ”

- Mary Renault

“ We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion! ”

- Robert Burns

“ O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us. ”

- Ethel Watts Mumford

“ When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. ”

- Margaret Sackville

“ Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. ”

- William Phillips

“ Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotomy of a decorous age. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. ”

- Marguerite Duras

“ This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. ”

- Stendhal
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