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

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

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

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

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

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
Bernard Cornwell

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

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
Will Arnett

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

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
Mark Haddon

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

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

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
Alan Bennett

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

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
Barry Sheene

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby

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

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Kitty O'Neill Collins

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens