Bores Quotes

470 Bores quotes by 385 unique authors

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family. — Mark Twain
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen… — Walter Murch
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his… — Oliver Goldsmith
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear… — Gaston Bachelard
'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard… — Unknown Author
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November… — Ann Zwinger
Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female. — Moss Hart
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having… — Jack Handey
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must,… — Noel Coward
Literature bores me, especially great literature — John Berryman
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes… — Terry Pratchett
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… — Henry Adams
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. — Alfred North Whitehead
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. — Elsa Maxwell
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's… — Peter Shaffer
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. — Elsa Maxwell
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. — Ed Koch
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — Wystan Hugh Auden

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