Bores Quotes

470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. — John Updike
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. — Voltaire
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. — Orson Welles
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. — Oscar Wilde
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. — Billy Wilder
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no… — William Wordsworth
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that… — Michelangelo
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his… — Ayn Rand
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it… — Anne Lamott
But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge… — Anne Frank
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife. — Louise Brooks
A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return. — Henry David Thoreau
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping… — Doris Lessing
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent… — Anais Nin
Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters… — John Searle
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving.… — Sue Monk Kidd
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to… — Viktor E. Frankl
Fenworth!' Yes?' You bore me with your prattle.' Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a… — Donita K. Paul
People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet… — Lyn Hejinian
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.… — George Orwell

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