Bores Quotes

All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

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, and astound me.

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

Never ask a bore a question.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

It's a sin to bore people.

Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.

There is nothing more boring than a bored person.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

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 good solution to your problem.

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 them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.