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Bore Quotes by Henry Adams
- [Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
- 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.…
More Bore Quotes
- I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well… — Alan Ball
- I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling… — Roseanne Barr
- Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce
- A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. — Josh Billings
- Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather… — Bjork
- I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. — Louise Brooks
- 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
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
- There is no bore like a clever bore. — Samuel Butler
- Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. — Winston Churchill
- 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… — Harlan Coben
- Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of… — Marcus Aurelius