Tedious Quotes

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I barely managed to do the small talk—the what-do-you-do, the where-are-you-from, the what-neighborhood, the what-college, the despair of trying to explain oneself.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic constants, we will be able to say that physical science has reached its end, that no excitement is left in further explorations, and that all that remains to a physicist is either tedious work on minor details or the self-educational study and adoration of the magnificence of the completed system. At that stage physical science will enter from the epoch of Columbus and Magellan into the epoch of the National Geographic Magazine!”
― George Gamow

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The generation into which I was born was tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun or hear the songs of larks like crystal fountains playing against the sky. No hand enfolded mine in the warm clasp of love. My thoughts were again solitary, disintegrate, disharmonious – the music gone. I lived alone in a few pleasant rooms, feeling my life run out aimlessly with the tedious hours: the life of an old maid ran out of my fingertips.”
― Anna Kavan, Asylum Piece

“This tedious letter to you . . .
what is one life to another?”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“College had always felt more like an anchor than a kite, a tedious and time-eating entrapment. Studying for pointless tests stole away nights, rote memorization disappearing the freedom of creation.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“One of his primary duties as the High King appears to be reminding her she isn't personally responsible for solving every tedious problem and carrying out every tedious execution in all of Elfhame. He wouldn't mind causing a little torment here or there, of a non-murdery sort, but her view of their positions seems overburdened with chores.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“The path that leads to triumph is long, tedious, and crooked.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Cardan puts up a hand. 'No, no, enough. It's all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end.' His fingers make a flicking gesture towards the door. 'Leave us. I tire of the lot of you.'

I have a long way to go before I can manage that level of shameless arrogance.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing