Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
John Dryden

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
James Herriot

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.
Simone Signoret

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
Algernon H. Blackwood

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

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

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

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
Ben Harper

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
Louise Brooks

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

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

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

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.
Jacqueline du Pre

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.
Jo Brand

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
Constance Baker Motley

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

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