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I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

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

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

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

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

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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