Quotes and Sayings About Bores
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
-- Ian Rankin
