Top 100 Quotes About Tiresome
#1. The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
August Bournonville
#2. The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
Voltaire
#3. And I offer this book with the heartiest sentiments to all the jolly people who hate what I write, and regard it (very justly, for all I know), as a piece of poor clowning or a single tiresome joke.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
Felix Dennis
#5. Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
Noel Coward
#6. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire
#7. Now I'm going out to dinner with my parents."
"Your parents?"
"Yeah. They really do exist."
"It's eight-thirty."
"Yeah, well if you're rich and pretentious you're supposed to eat late. It's one of the rules."
"Doesn't that become tiresome?"
"Inordinately.
Todd Young
#9. I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.
John Battelle
#10. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.
Steve Erickson
#12. Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?
James Madison
#13. For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.
Jane Austen
#14. This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
Robert Wyatt
#16. Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#17. In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
William, Saroyan
#18. My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.
Jane Austen
#19. I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome.
Hugh Laurie
#20. Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#21. 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
#22. And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#23. However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones
John Quincy Adams
#24. [About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
Ian Rankin
#25. The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love.
Sheila Kohler
#26. I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian
Charlaine Harris
#27. Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
Robin Hobb
#28. She is so tiresome. 'Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I'll be both!
Melika Dannese Lux
#29. Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.
Ana Monnar
#30. We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.
Melissa De La Cruz
#31. The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
Jean De La Bruyere
#33. Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
Henry Adams
#35. Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
Billy Graham
#36. I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#37. Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.
Bisco Hatori
#38. Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#39. I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, and that language can hold a kind of sincerity that is tiresome and overwrought.
Meia Geddes
#40. And the tiresome part of sorrows is that they do not hurt in proportion to their validity and excusability. If we are to be sympathetic, we can remember always that silly suffering hurts just as much as sensible suffering.
Menie Muriel Dowie
#41. Of all the tiresome situations in the world, thought the Prince Regent, the most tiresome was to rise from one's bed in a state of uncertainty as to whether or not one was the ruler of Great Britain.
Susanna Clarke
#42. Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.
Johann Gottfried Seume
#43. Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing.
Colin Watson
#44. The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
#45. 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
#46. Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
Rufus Sewell
#47. Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
Joe Abercrombie
#48. 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
#49. Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire, and having things pointed at with a stick.
-Robert Frobisher
David Mitchell
#50. I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel De Montaigne
#51. There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
Luc De Clapiers
#52. Pursue wisdom, my child, but first that this is no skip through the pasture. This is a tiresome mountain climb and the summit is far beyond your years but there are treasures along the way.
Zoe Klein
#53. 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
#54. I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.
Jello Biafra
#55. Regrets grow tiresome
Melvin
#56. There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
#57. Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#58. The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass ... all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.
Francis De Sales
#59. It was evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to them.
Leo Tolstoy
#60. but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction.
Neal Stephenson
#61. Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."
"I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them." Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty.
G.S. Jennsen
#62. Unconsciousness obeyed the wispy psyche, and of some tiresome wanting, I would, no longer want my body again, when the soul was somewhere beyond the horizon.My Pains are swelling in me; agony crept to me in all of its forms.
Nithin Purple
#63. 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
#64. On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.
Walter Sickert
#65. It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.
Christopher Logue
#66. It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#67. She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing the more tiresome parts of one's own personality.
Henry James
#68. I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.
Mark Twain
#70. It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
Plautus
#71. I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We are all the walking wounded, your pain is no worse than everyone else's.
Jessica Zafra
#72. To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
Michel De Montaigne
#73. I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
Ethel Smyth
#74. Who's sick? If I want to die, I'll just die; it's too tiresome to be sick. - Lotus
Su Tong
#75. I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.
Judith Orloff
#76. The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.
George Will
#77. It's hardly early," Jasnah said, gliding forward. It seemed obvious to her that Gavilar and Amaram had ducked out to find privacy for their discussion. "This is the tiresome part of the feast, where the conversation grows louder but no smarter, and the company drunken.
Brandon Sanderson
#78. And two more tiresome examples of blameless lives lived well I have rarely had the misfortune to examine.
Andrea K. Host
#79. I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
Carol Moseley Braun
#80. If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.
Sarah Paulson
#81. I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
George Eliot
#82. As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
Henry Adams
#83. My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.
Anna Friel
#84. As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don't COME that way. You have to TRAIN them. Too tiresome. I can understand your anguish.
Meg Cabot
#85. There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.
Anthony Marais
#86. The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
G.K. Chesterton
#87. I know I do - teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home, began Meg, in the complaining tone again.
Louisa May Alcott
#88. My dear,' said the old men gently, 'I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see. To take you to it will be a real pleasure.
E. M. Forster
#89. A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
Laozi
#90. It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch.
Rebecca Goldstein
#91. What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!
John Oliver Killens
#93. Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
Ambrose Bierce
#94. It's dreadfully tiresome to keep one's true self hidden" -Hattie
Jessica Lawson
#95. Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")
William Beckford
#96. 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
#98. Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
Nancy Lancaster
#99. Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Plato
#100. Listening to other opinions was invariably more profitable than antagonizing their owners by pointing out tiresome objections.
William Haggard
