Boor Quotes

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor. (D. H. Lawrence)
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. View quote
Gregory Maguire
The head writer loves that my character is a boor. View quote
Rob Corddry
Here was a man who could not spell, and did not care to read - who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but was sordid and soil; and yet he had rank, and honors, and power, somehow: and was dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise. View quote
Hillel the Elder
Boor, bond of thy herd, Tonight stretch full by the fire! View quote
James Joyce
A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise. View quote
Hillel the Younger