tiresome quotes

Love is a very papithatick thing as well as troublesom & tiresome but O Isabella forbid me to speak about it.

- Marjory Fleming
  'Journal 3' in F Sidgwick (ed)  The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications. Adults never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupe  ry
  Le Petit Prince.