Bores Quote by Henry David Thoreau

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

— Oscar Wilde

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

— Bert Leston Taylor

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

— Oscar Wilde

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

— James Russell Lowell

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

— Samuel Butler

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

— Samuel Butler

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

— Eda LeShan

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

— Anonymous

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Transgression is a quest for solitude

— Adam Phillips