[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought…

“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.”

— Henry Adams

“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is that compared…

— Carolyn Keene

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which…

— Kurt Masur

In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.

— Sheila Hancock

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and…

— Henry Adams

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned…

— Marcus Aurelius

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can…

— Jack Gould

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores…

— Charles Dickens

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

— Martha Gellhorn

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