Bernard Williams Quotes

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

I went through a lazy period.

I'm just generally lazy.

I'm quite lazy.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

I am lazy.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

I am terribly lazy. So, if I don't have to get out of the house, I will sleep away the entire day.

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

I'm definitely the lazy one in the family.

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

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition