Bore Quotes

407 quotes by 357 authors

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge… — Lee Krasner
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God. — Orson Welles
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. — William Osler
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — Yves Saint Laurent
If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him? — Dwight L. Moody
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it. — William Hazlitt
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every… — John Dryden
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. — Saul Bellow
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore… — John Quincy Adams
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more… — Ron Fournier
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to… — Carlos Fuentes
The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just… — Jonathan Davis
Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. — Henry Ford
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that.… — Katharine Hepburn
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. — James Herriot
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in… — Soren Kierkegaard
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. — Henry A. Kissinger
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt… — Annie Lennox

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