George Eliot Dull Quotations

Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.