Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Boredom

The Top Ten

1 Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organized and more naturally cohesive inter se. So the arctic volcano can do nothing against arctic ice. (Samuel Butler)

2 He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great. (Samuel Johnson)

3 Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. (Elsa Maxwell)

4 It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design to it. (Richard Steele)

5 Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.' (Dylan Thomas)

6 He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I have ever met. (Abraham Lincoln)

7 In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. (Oscar Wilde)

And I love dullness.

8 The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. (Osbert Lancaster)

9 Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. (Barry Humphries)

10 What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? (George H. W. Bush)

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