“Nothing is so tiresome as being insincere.”
“It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.”
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”
“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. ”
“So we stood on the corner by the stationery shop and were deeply insincere with each other.--The Tattered Cloak”
“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”