Bore Quotes

407 quotes by 357 authors

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. — John Mortimer
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it. — Matt Lucas
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself. — Rob Brezsny
With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars. — William Wordsworth
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight,… — William Wordsworth
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm Forbes
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). — John Milton
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this… — John Milton
Big book, a big bore. — Callimachus
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest… — Steven Heighton
As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through… — Tayeb Salih
Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that… — Horatius Bonar
Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us. — Sheri L. Dew
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all… — David Mamet
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. — Andy Hargreaves
Unrequited love's a bore. — Lorenz Hart
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore. — Al Pacino
It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to… — Thomas Jefferson
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the… — Dan Auerbach

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