23 Quotes About Drudgery

"Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real."

"... his experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ..."

"Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture."

"Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental."

"She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies."

"Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery."

"Wake up and be happy. Everything else is drudgery, futility, waste."

"Do what you love and be happy. Everything else is drudgery, futility, waste."

"Men så uppdök minnet om gamla fäderneförmaningar och råd, och då framkom den gamla lögnen, att allt arbete är lika aktningsvärt och förehöll honom hans högmod, och så tog han sitt förnuft till fånga och gick hem för att skriva 48 verktum Ulrika Eleonora."