Bore Quotes
407 quotes by 357 authors
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can…
— Alan Ball
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it…
— Roseanne Barr
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it…
— Bjork
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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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 their emotions in…
— Julie Burchill
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
— Samuel Butler
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
— Winston Churchill
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I love stories. 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
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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 to…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death,…
— John Nelson Darby
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Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head…
— Walter de La Mare
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits…
— Pope Leo XII
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The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
— Thomas Hood
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but…
— Remy de Gourmont
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Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.
— Drake
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
— Hilaire Belloc
Who Wrote These Bore Quotes
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