Bores Quotes

470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. — Charles Dickens
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice;… — Terry Eagleton
Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. — Henry Ford
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not… — John Hawkes
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that.… — Katharine Hepburn
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. — James Herriot
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. — Eric Hoffer
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our… — Samuel Johnson
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be… — Soren Kierkegaard
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in… — Soren Kierkegaard
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. — Henry A. Kissinger
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt… — Annie Lennox
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. — Doris Lessing
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. — C.S. Lewis
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a… — H. L. Mencken
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. — H. L. Mencken

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