Bores Quotes

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

What I know bores me.

Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

I try not to bore my readers.

I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

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

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

War? War is an organized bore.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.

I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.

Tenacity bores failure.

Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.

He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

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

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

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.

We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"