Bores Quotes

470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors

That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in… — William Penn
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. — Sinclair Lewis
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the… — Patricia Briggs
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore. — Constance Baker Motley
A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it. — Laurence J. Peter
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man… — Knut Hamsun
Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse. — Philip Yancey
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. — Francois Truffaut
Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary… — Dennis Flanagan
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody. — J. A. Spender
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how… — Edmund Clarence Stedman
If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The only thing worse than being bored is being boring. — Jean Baudrillard
Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great… — G.M.B. Akash
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with… — Mark Twain
No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore. — Douglas V. Steere
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. — James Russell Lowell
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted… — John Updike
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde
It's such a Bore Being always Poor. — Langston Hughes
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as… — Charles Dickens

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