Boor Quotes

#1. Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.'
'Thank you,' said Robin.

Robin McKinley

#2. The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Roger L'Estrange

#3. The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. boor (which originally just meant "farmer," as in the German Bauer and Dutch boer); villain (from the French vilein, a serf or villager); churlish (from English churl, a commoner); vulgar (common, as in the term vulgate); and ignoble, not an aristocrat.

Steven Pinker

#5. The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

Rob Corddry

#6. Some smart folk wish to love Jesus, but prefer to ignore his bride, the Church. This goes no better for these rude people than it does when any loving husband meets a boor who condescends, ignores, or insults his beloved.

Holly Ordway

#7. If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. But women aren't just bodies! ... boor! they're "companions" as well! what of their charms, their grace, their twitterings? sure, sure! if suicide appeals to you ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#9. The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Honore De Balzac

#10. 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.

Gregory Maguire

#11. Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Neal A. Maxwell

#12. the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.

Aubrey F.G. Bell

#13. Doesn't everyone want to feel in the night
the beloved body, compass, polestar,
to hear the quiet breathing that says
I am alive, that means also
you are alive, because you hear me,
you are here with me

Louise Gluck

#14. Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

Voltaire

#15. This is what creationists say of evolution, that it's "only" a theory, it hasn't been proved, as though this in itself is grounds for dismissal. This misrepresents the point of formulating a theory, which is to make sense of some body of evidence.

Daniel Quinn

#16. Son, no matter where your talent takes you, you're going to be a man a lot longer than you're going to be a ball player. Knowledge is the only true power. Learn all you can.

Stephanie Evanovich

#17. I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

Jeff Kinney

#18. We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place
we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.

Shirley Jackson