Kenneth Tynan Quotes

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.