Tiresome Quotes (page 2)

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• people
• civilization
• much

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. Michel de Montaigne

• work
• reading
• reads

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. William Gaddis

• queen
• movement
• strollers

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. Rupert Everett

• travel
• nature
• contentment

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. Jonathan Edwards

• single
• company
• hitting

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. Robert Wyatt

• god
• drinking
• eating

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Voltaire

• good
• kindness
• style

All styles are good except the tiresome kind. Voltaire

• self
• confidence
• self confidence

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. Arthur Helps

• stress
• she
• attention

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful. Sandra Day O'Connor

• study
• end
• manly

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. Maimonides

• happy
• people
• whose

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. Charles de Secondat

• power
• powerful
• common

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. Nate Ruess

• business
• regret
• busy

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett