I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me…

— Randeep Hooda

He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the…

— Anonymous

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

— W. H. Auden

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have…

— John Quincy Adams

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most…

— Richard J. Foster

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