Bores quotes
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
-- Alan Bennett -
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
-- Anita Loos -
There is nothing more boring than a bored person.
-- Arlene Francis -
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
-- Babe Paley -
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Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
-- Barry Sheene -
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
-- Bert Leston Taylor -
Don't bore the public with mysterious designs,
-- Bob Noorda -
No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
-- Buddy Rich -
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If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
-- David Mamet -
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.
-- David Ogilvy -
Fenworth!' Yes?' You bore me with your prattle.' Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.
-- Donita K. Paul -
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
-- Ed Koch -
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The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
-- Edward Bond -
Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.
-- Eliza Leslie -
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
-- Ethel Smyth -
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
-- Francois Truffaut -
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Plato was a bore.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
-- Gail Carson Levine -
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
-- Geoffrey Beene -
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
-- George Eliot -
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
-- Gerald Brenan -
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
-- Harold Nicolson -
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
-- Henry Cavill -
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
-- Herbert Beerbohm Tree -
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[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
-- Ian Rankin -
More is more and less is a bore.
-- Iris Apfel -
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
-- J. A. Spender -
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
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I try not to bore my readers.
-- Jackie Collins -
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
-- James Herbert -
Literature bores me, especially great literature
-- John Berryman -
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
-- John Cheever -
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The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
-- John Mortimer -
We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
-- Joseph Prince -
I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.
-- Judi Shekoni -
If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.
-- Julie London -
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It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
-- Katharine Whitehorn -
She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.
-- Kevin Hearne -
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
-- Leonard Susskind -
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Unrequited love's a bore.
-- Lorenz Hart -
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
-- Louise Brooks -
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
-- Louise Brooks -
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
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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 -
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
-- Mark Strand -
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
-- Marlon Brando -
when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.
-- Martha Albrand -
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A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Oscar Wilde -
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
-- Ouida -
Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.
-- Paul Schrader -
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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 -
I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
-- Rae Dawn Chong -
There is no greater bore than perfection.
-- Richard Connell -
I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
-- Ricky Gervais -
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Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.
-- Rita Dove -
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.
-- Rob Brezsny -
Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.
-- Robert Denning -
Movies bore me; especially my own.
-- Robert Mitchum -
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We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
-- Sheila Heti -
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.
-- Simone Signoret -
He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.
-- Simone Signoret -
The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
-- Thomas Hood -
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We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
-- Voltaire -
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
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I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.
-- Robert Kazinsky
