Bores Quotes

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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• She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Boredom, Boring, Being Bored

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Eggs, Boredom

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Depression

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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

  Ed Koch

  Running, Looks

  "I'm Right, You're Wrong: Ed Koch Vs. Al D'Amato". nymag.com.

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• If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

  Julie London

  Scripts, Terrible, Ifs

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• I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

  Ben Harper

  Interviews, Return, Diminishing Returns

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• 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

  Stupid, Tired, Eagles

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.344

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• Unrequited love's a bore.

  Lorenz Hart

  Unrequited Love, Unrequited

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• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Complaining, Literature

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• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

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• It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

  Matt Lucas

  People, Important, Dull

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

  Hugh Mackay

  Believe, Reading, People

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

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Reading, Self

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Ideas, Differences

  "Where do you get your ideas?" by Neil Gaiman, www.neilgaiman.com. 1997.

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• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Book, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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

  Jacques Maritain

  Believe, Thinking, Dams

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Details, Boring, Worst

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• 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

  Funny, Witty, Class

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• What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Talking, Bores You, Giving

  "How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining".

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• One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

  Anatole France

  Men, Giving, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Fire, People, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Pay

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Listening To Others, Bores You, Effective Listening

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37

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