Bores Quotes
470 quotes by 385 authors
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Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head…
— Walter de La Mare
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits…
— Pope Leo XII
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The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
— Thomas Hood
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but…
— Remy de Gourmont
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Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.
— Drake
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
— Hilaire Belloc
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.
— Jacques Maritain
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Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time…
— John Tyler
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He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.
— Simone Signoret
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Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?
— Groucho Marx
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You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
— John Cheever
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I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out…
— Sasha Alexander
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Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
— Robert Morley
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Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!
— Zig Ziglar
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I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody…
— J D Salinger
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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads…
— George Mikes
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would…
— Wilfred Trotter
Who Wrote These Bores Quotes
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