Bore Quotes

407 quotes by 357 authors

Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel… — Jean Lipman-Blumen
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life.… — Saint Augustine
If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family. — Mark Twain
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen… — Walter Murch
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his… — Oliver Goldsmith
'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard… — William Barnes Rhodes
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must,… — Noel Coward
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes… — Terry Pratchett
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… — Henry Adams
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. — Alfred North Whitehead
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's… — Peter Shaffer
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. — Elsa Maxwell
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. — Maria Edgeworth
He bore no grudge against those he had wronged. — Simone Signoret
He was not only a bore; he bored for England. — Malcolm Muggeridge
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and… — Origen
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. — Hugh Mackay
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. — Geoffrey Beene
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to… — Terence Stamp

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