C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Tediousness
The sin of excessive length.
Shirley.
Wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Bible.
Oh, he is as tedious as a tired horse!
Shakespeare.
I stay too long by thee; I weary thee.
Shakespeare.
For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us.
Milton.
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
Dryden.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Shakespeare.
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
Colton.
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.