Bore Quotes

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

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

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.

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.

Plato was a bore.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.