Bores Quotes

470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors

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
Literature bores me, especially great literature — John Berryman
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
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. — Elsa Maxwell
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
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. — Ed Koch
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. — Lars Ulrich
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond
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
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

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