Bore Quotes

“You bore me”

— Robert Bresson

Less is a bore.

— Robert Venturi

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unrequited love's a bore.

— Lorenz Hart

Big book, a big bore.

— Callimachus

I was a purist bore.

— Michael Parkinson

“Meetings bore me.”

— E.B. White

“You bore ne rigid.”

— Daniel Campbell

“Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore.”

— Sophia Amoruso

Never ask a bore a question.

— Mason Cooley

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

— Truman Capote

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

— Buddy Rich

I'm a bore. I save all my energy for my characters.

— Joe Pesci

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

— Louise Brooks

Let's face it, sightseeing can be a bore at times.

— Barbi Benton

There is no greater bore than perfection.

— Richard Connell

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

— Garry Winogrand

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.

— Jacqueline Fernandez

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

— Ann Voskamp

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.”

— François de la Rochefoucauld

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

— George Eliot

I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.

— Alison Jackson

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

— Sheila Heti

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

— Anonymous

If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.

— Mark Waid

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English,…

— Joe Strummer

The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing…

— Dean Wareham

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe…

— Robert Sternberg

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

— Mark Haddon

I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy…

— Darren Boyd

“Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take…

— Evelyn Waugh

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If…

— Harlan Coben

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

— Celia Imrie

I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the…

— James Patterson

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

— Lalla Ward

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse…

— Vikram Seth

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like…

— Del Shannon

In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in…

— Rick Perlstein