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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking. — Susan Jacoby

He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged. — Simone Signoret

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

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

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. — Erich Fromm

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying. — Mason Cooley

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski

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

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. — Lars Ulrich

Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. — George Gordon Byron

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell

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

I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped. — Ricky Gervais

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden

All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there's no one who bores him more than himself. — David Levithan

War? War is an organized bore. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore. — John Stuart Mill

the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death. — Harper Lee

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. — Elsa Maxwell

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. — Elsa Maxwell

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. — Richard J. Foster

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. — Bert Leston Taylor

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore. — Edward Abbey

When a thing bores you, do not do it. — Eugene Delacroix

I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. — John Steinbeck

In my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both. — Daria Snadowsky

And Richard Phillips writes, Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself. — Tim Challies

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply. — Carine Roitfeld

Non-stop gore doesn't shock; it bores. — Rayne Hall

The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. — Ethel Smyth

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. — Albert Camus

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. — Anatole France

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. — Barry Humphries

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores. — Morrissey

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

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

This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal. — Robert Harris

He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives. — Carol Anshaw

I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind. — Peter Steele

There is nothing more boring than a bored person. — Arlene Francis

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert

What bores the listener bores the speaker too. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore. — Buddy Rich

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people. — Martha Gellhorn

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. — Oscar Wilde

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

History is the same thing over and over again. — Woody Allen

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

The kids found the new high tensile Duncan Yo-Yo string was strong enough to use as a garrotte. — Fred Barnett

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

And with a little pin bores through his castle wall and farewell king. — William Shakespeare

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

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there? — Jasmine Guinness

Yet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not happy in your? Twang. It snapped. — James Joyce

There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge. — Paul Zindel

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. — Moliere

The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations — Thomas Hood

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. — Charles Dickens

The sunlight bores the daylights out of me — Rolling Stones

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

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. — Edith Sitwell

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet

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. — Marianne Von Werefkin

Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad. — Lucien Carr

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Pessimists can be such bores, and it's lazy to believe the worst. — Paul Morley

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream. — Melody Carstairs

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores — Adriana Trigiani

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

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

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness. — Edouard Manet

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

Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears. — Alanis Morissette

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore. — John Cheever

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

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. — Don Marquis

When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble. — Patrick DeWitt

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems. — Zig Ziglar

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me. — Babe Paley

But the future bores me.
I imagine following it like a leaf into traffic.
I imagine eating it like a heart made of oatmeal. — Laura Kasischke

it makes no sense to pursue a career that bores you comatose." "That's — Alexander Campion

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

More is more and less is a bore. — Iris Apfel

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores. — Mason Cooley

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. — A.A. Milne

I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores. — Edith Wharton

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

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how
usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep. — Charles Bukowski

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people. — Margot Asquith

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

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there. — Sasha Alexander

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. — Ray Bradbury

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. — Doris Lessing

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. — Francis Picabia

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — Yves Saint-Laurent