Bores Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Foolishness had never been an option in his life. He hadn’t acquired the knack for it. He should have known. Kisses, he’d learned through…

— Julie Anne Long

“He had a singularly charming smile, and it ensured for him, no matter how exacting might be his demands, the uncomplaining exertions of his…

— Georgette Heyer

“Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light…

— Christopher Fowler

“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,…

— Thomas Hardy

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

— John Milton

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the…

— Aldous Huxley

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He knew himself a villain—but he deem'd The rest no better than the thing he seem'd; And scorn'd the best as hypocrites who hid…

— George Gordon Byron

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for…

— Anne Holm