Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them…

“He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do…

— S.E. Hinton

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

— Anne Rice

“I make you nervous,” he whispered. It wasn’t a question, but a statement. The smirk on his face told me he knew it was…

— Kristen Day

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

— Woody Guthrie

Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd…

— Nicholas Sparks

“And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who had all the kots and koshkas had passed on…

— Anthony Burgess

Everyone told me not to take you back, who knew people spoke the truth.

— Jenna Bognar

“She knew things that nobody had ever told her... She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pastor of ether. She…

— Zora Neale Hurston

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to…

— Valerie Solanas

Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

— Geoffrey Madan

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,…

— Robert Graves

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to…

— Erin Hunter

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

— Katharine Hepburn