Bores Quotes

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Voltaire

Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.

Bruce Herschensohn

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

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.

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

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

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

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

William Dean Howells

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

Gian Vincenzo Cravina

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

Bert Leston Taylor

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

Jacques-Binigne Bossuet

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.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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

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

His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewis L. Lewisohn

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

Bertrand Russell

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

Goethe

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

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

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

William Hazlitt

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Tenacity bores failure.