8 Tedium Quotes for You to Enjoy

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. Dorothy L. Sayers

Justice People Personality Christ Thought Too On The Contrary Later Has-Been Bore Atmosphere Never Generations Safe Shattering Him Been Left Surround Up Contrary Accused Hanged Being Dynamic Them Who Tedium

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. Christopher Hitchens

Experience Anxiety Long Pain Long Periods Terminal Like Involves Periods Terror Endurance Warfare Illness Grave Stark Tedium

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone. Paul Theroux

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life. Christopher Meloni

Life You Theatre Hate Everyday Life Meal Difficult Every Everyday Once Correctly High Fraught Find Feast Never-Ending Very Done Stakes Then Working Reason Why Play Every Night Night Tedium

When I was playing James Bond, it was the best job in the world. I mean, it was hard work, all that filming and travelling and tedium on set, but I earned a lot of money, and it was not a taxing job. I just had to say, 'Shaken, not stirred.' Roger Moore

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I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that will entertain me but also help me appreciate what I am seeing. Max Boot

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Robert South

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