“The result will be something unutterably tedious.”
“Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram.”
“There is nothing as sad, nothing as unutterably sad, as an old man crying.”
“It's satisfying. It yields immediate results. Something is dirty. Then it's not.”
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
“People are either charming or tedious.”