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 new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W. H. Auden

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Marguerite Yourcenar

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

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. Milne

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
Adam Jones

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
Louis Kronenberger

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

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 just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.
Sasha Alexander

I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
Peter Steele

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Samuel West

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John Steinbeck

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
Peter Shaffer

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
Ed Koch

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe