Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat. — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in… — Jacqueline du Pre Copy Share Image
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full… — Jean Lipman-Blumen Copy Share Image
'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So… — William Barnes Rhodes Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000. — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image