Bores Quotes
470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors
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I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.
— Shelby Foote
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise…
— Doris Lessing
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft
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It's a sin to bore people.
— R C Sproul
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These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go…
— Homer
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And…
— Emily Dickinson
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I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect…
— Sarah MacLean
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Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely…
— Stephen Fry
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Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
— Andy Warhol
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People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.
— Jeaniene Frost
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A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
— Kristin Cashore
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Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest,…
— Markus Zusak
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I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble…
— Heinrich Böll
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I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys…
— Franz Kafka
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Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Oh dear," said Jace..."I hope that wasn't anything important." "It was a sleeping potion," she said angrily, toeing the vial with the tip of a…
— Cassandra Clare
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
— Moliere
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She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.
— Kevin Hearne
Who Wrote These Bores Quotes
385 authors contributed a total of 470 Bores Quotes, led by these top contributors: