Bore Quotes

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Thought, Europe, Greater

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

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

Society, Simply, Tragedy

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Care, Short

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero, Last, Becomes

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

Life, Short, Times

Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford

Person, Mouth, Feats

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

Everything, Tell, Secret

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.
H. L. Mencken

War, Human, Fact

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.
Katharine Hepburn

Age, Yourself, Sex

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

Human, Another, Seems

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken

God, Human, Thought

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Great, Men, Himself

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

Person, Him, Wish

We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot, Forgive, Often

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles

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

Nice, Fault, Celebrity

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth

Music, Heart, Long

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

Bored, Himself, Lets

There is no bore like a clever bore.
Samuel Butler

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
Elvis Presley

Life, Hope, Story

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

Boredom, Second, Worst

Never ask a bore a question.
Mason Cooley

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh Billings

Happiness, Good, Find

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
Gertrude Stein

Remember, Everybody, Knew

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

Ten, Cut, Final

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
Jonathan Davis

Death, Real, Kids

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
Langston Hughes

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