Tiresome – Quotes

I can imagine nothing

I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door. Ethel Smyth

I think that’s such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, … Read more

Tiresome heart, forever living

Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying! Edna St. Vincent Millay

To safeguard one\’s health

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A small degree of

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

This perpetual round of

This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known…. ‘Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value. Fanny Burney

Girls like you are

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he’s been building ideals around, and finds that she’s just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations! … Read more

Nothing seems tiresome or

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him. Dominic Savio

Small Man can be

Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is … Read more

Ask a wise man

Ask a wise man to dinner and he’ll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you’ll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people’s entertainment. Desiderius Erasmus