Quotes on Bores

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.

I travelled among unknown men,_x000D_ _x000D_ In lands beyond the sea;_x000D_ _x000D_ Nor England! did I know till then_x000D_ _x000D_ What love I bore to thee.

It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.