Bores Quotes
470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
— Charles Dickens
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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
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
— Henry Ford
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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
— Mark Haddon
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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
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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
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
— James Herriot
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When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
— Eric Hoffer
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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
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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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
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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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
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Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
— Doris Lessing
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H. L. Mencken
Who Wrote These Bores Quotes
385 authors contributed a total of 470 Bores Quotes, led by these top contributors: