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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Tediousness |
| The sin of excessive length. Shirley. | 1 |
| Wearisome nights are appointed to me. Bible. | 2 |
| Oh, he is as tedious as a tired horse! Shakespeare. | 3 |
| I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. Shakespeare. | 4 |
| For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. Milton. | 5 |
| Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays. Dryden. | 6 |
| Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Shakespeare. | 7 |
| Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? Colton. | 8 |
| A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so often over and over again. Bacon. | 9 |
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