Bores Quotes

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

  John Mortimer

  Writing, Found, Validity

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• And 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, United States, Adequate

  Charles Dickens (1901). “The Oxford India paper Dickens”

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• 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

  Writing, Hands, Play

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• There is no greater bore than perfection.

  Richard Connell

  Perfection, Greater

  Richard Connell (2006). “The Most Dangerous Game”, p.16, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

  Karen Black

  Mother, Daughter, Thinking

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• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Roots, Bores You, Evil

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.

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• Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Good Life, Roots, Evil

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• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Boredom, Return

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Bores You, People, Boredom

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  James Herriot

  Lunch, Years, Wife

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• 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

  Birthday, Sex, Past

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• Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

  Billy Graham

  Bores You, Boredom, Done

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  Andre Gide

  Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

  Langston Hughes

  Literature, Poor

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.130, Vintage

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• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Boredom

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [225]

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• There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mind, Left Alone, Dread

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

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• Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

  Terence Stamp

  Real, Careers, Firsts

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Concealed, Concubines

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• We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

  Origen

  Believe, Sage, Mouths

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• He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

  Simone Signoret

  Grudge, Wronged

  Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hurt, Class, Creatures

  Maria Edgeworth (1874). “Harrington. Thoughts on bores. Ormond”, p.209

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• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  Lars Ulrich

  Song, People, Trying

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• 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

  Heart, Long, Musical

  'The Solitary Reaper' from 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803'

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• Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

  Alan Bennett

  Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Illness

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Untold Stories”, p.473, Faber & Faber

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