Bores Quotes
470 quotes by 393 authors
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
— Paul Auster
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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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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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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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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in…
— Warren Buffett
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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
— Lord Byron
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A yawn is a silent shout.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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