Bore Quotes

“Meetings bore me.”

— E.B. White

“You bore ne rigid.”

— Daniel Campbell

I was a purist bore.

— Michael Parkinson

I'm a real bore.

— Eric Roberts

“You bore me”

— Robert Bresson

Unrequited love's a bore.

— Lorenz Hart

Big book, a big bore.

— Callimachus

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Civilisation and top hats bore me.”

— W.N.P. Barbellion

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

— Constance Baker Motley

I try not to bore my readers.

— Jackie Collins

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Beauty is a bit of a bore.

— William Somerset Maugham

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

— Edward Abbey

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

— Langston Hughes

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

— Frank Moore Colby

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

— Bernard Cornwell

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

— Anonymous

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

— Gerald Brenan

Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

— Larry Wilcox

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— William C. Brown

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Laurie Graham

“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Charles Bukowski

“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.”

— Suzy Kassem

What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one?…

— Elsa Maxwell

I immediately recognised that Freddy's vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine - or vice-versa, I guess - and yeah, the…

— Marc Martel

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to…

— William Boyd

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy…

— Martin Jacques

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

— Maria Edgeworth

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name.…

— Algernon H. Blackwood

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design…

— Anthony Hamilton

travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake…

— Peg Bracken

I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a…

— Kary Mullis

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

— Ray Bradbury