Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
Olivia De Havilland

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

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

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

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

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

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

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.
Eisaku Sato

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

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

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

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
John Mortimer

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
Marlon Brando

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

There is no bore like a clever bore.
Samuel Butler

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.
Charlize Theron

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
Vita Sackville-West

Unrequited love's a bore.
Lorenz Hart

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