Bores Quotes · Page 5

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

— Francois Truffaut

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

— Joanne Greenberg

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

— Martha Albrand

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

— Mason Cooley

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

Don't bore the public with mysterious designs,

— Bob Noorda

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

— Drake

I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind

— Peter Steele

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

— Emily Post

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

— Ethel Smyth

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

— William C. Brown

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore…

— Ree Drummond

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

— Jasmine Guinness

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

— Gertrude Atherton

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many…

— Charles Dickens

grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

— Silvia Tennenbaum

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to…

— John Updike

I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it…

— Diana Vreeland

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or…

— Lee Krasner

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

— Elsa Maxwell

Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone…

— Bobby Fischer

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment…

— Bill Murray

He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…” “And this is exactly what I mean.” “Our love is written in the…

— Derek Landy

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers…

— James Cameron

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts,…

— Irvine Welsh

I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no…

— Homer

Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an…

— James Kenneth Stephen

It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex…

— Cecelia Ahern

After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles…

— Mary Blakely

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

— Louise Brooks

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

— Walter Martin

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

— Katharine Hepburn

There is no greater bore than perfection.

— Richard Connell

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

— Marilyn Monroe

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

— Rae Dawn Chong

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

— Moliere

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

— George Eliot