Bore Quotes - page 3

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore. (Gianfranco Fini)

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

Paul Theroux

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

Billy Wilder

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

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Lisa Kirk

If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would once more shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stands tall at the cross for all warriors of the world."

Baldur von Schirach

Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

John Milton

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

Karl Marx

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

Mark Haddon

Vengeance burns, Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

Michelle Paver

You were beautiful and heartless...in some ways rather a bore. But you have grown up into another over-refined soul of the sort our aristocracy is so good at producing and which produces so little itself save ways to spend unconscionable amounts on castles, clothes, and complex towers to keep comfortable impossible beasts. (Samuel R. Delany)

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Tana French

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

Sheila Heti

There is no greater bore than perfection.

Richard Connell

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

Constance Baker Motley

There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

Casey Abrams

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

Cecil Beaton

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Hugh Mackay

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right. (Jacqueline du Pre)

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

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

Patricia Briggs

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

Rae Dawn Chong

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

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