Bela Lugosi Quotes

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Habit is a great deadener.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.