Bore Quotes

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

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

Never ask a bore a question.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

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

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

Plato was a bore.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

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

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Unrequited love's a bore.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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.

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.