Quotes Tagged With :drudgery

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking....

Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we....

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part,....

She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on....

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk....

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That....