The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood,…

— Remy de Gourmont

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

— Voltaire

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

— Ambrose Bierce

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

— David Shields

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

“The young will never know how recklessly we went from bed to bed, from body to body, from night to night. it all, at…

— Charles Bukowski

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

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that…

— Lalla Ward

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

“We all bore scars, whether on the outside or in.”

— Tillie Cole

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

— Henry David Thoreau

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

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

— Katharine Hepburn