Dull Quotes

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.

– John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (Divine Beauty in Europe).

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

– Joseph Conrad

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

– Charles Bukowski

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

– Aldous Huxley

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

– Dean Acheson

Reality really isn’t as dull as it’s cracked up to be.

– Estelle

How dull it is to have people defining you.

– Octavia E. Butler

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

– W. Somerset Maugham

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