There is no greater bore than perfection.

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

— Katharine Hepburn

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

— Douglas V. Steere

A stupid disgusting bore is a guy who has nothing to say, and nonetheless says it anyway.

— William C. Brown

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few…

— Maria Edgeworth

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

— Garry Winogrand

He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.

— Simone Signoret

I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and…

— Celia Imrie

I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

— Lauren Kate

War? War is an organized bore.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

— Mark Haddon

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

— J. A. Spender

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

— Laurence J. Peter

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

— Voltaire

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

— Henry David Thoreau

More is more and less is a bore.

— Iris Apfel