Top 100 Quotes About Bores
#1. Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
Barry Humphries
#2. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.
Anneli Rufus
#3. He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#4. A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#5. A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#7. You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave.
Victor Hugo
#8. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
Edouard Manet
#9. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.
J.R. Ward
#10. the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.
Harper Lee
#11. Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
#12. Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.
From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962
Sylvia Plath
#13. I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#14. I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
Karl Lagerfeld
#15. it makes no sense to pursue a career that bores you comatose." "That's
Alexander Campion
#16. If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
Nancy Kress
#17. Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Elsa Maxwell
#19. Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
Susan Jacoby
#20. Authoritative people bore me: but what bores me even more are those swarms of little people who love authority and in virtue of whom the authority of the authoritative can be exercised.
Nanamoli Thera
#21. I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.
John Steinbeck
#22. I don't like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.
Judi Shekoni
#23. A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.
Melody Carstairs
#24. Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.
John Rogers Searle
#25. One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
Langston Hughes
#26. It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#28. It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.
Richard J. Foster
#29. I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.
Jeff Lindsay
#30. I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores
Adriana Trigiani
#31. I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
Ricky Gervais
#32. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if it bores you, you can move on.
Sarah Morgan
#33. The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
Randy Jackson
#34. I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
James Herbert
#35. I wish they'd hurry up with the second scene,' said Mrs. Viveash. 'If there's anything that bores me, it's entr'actes.'
'Most of one's life is an entr'acte,' said Gumbril.
Aldous Huxley
#36. The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens
#37. People. Falling for each others' pretensions, fakeness and whatever various faces they can put on to wear. And then they call it love. What a fantasy. What a blasphemy. Humanity bores me.
C. JoyBell C.
#38. The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
Edward Bond
#39. When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's
all.
Bobby Fischer
#41. I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
Margot Asquith
#42. I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.
Guy Pearce
#43. Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
Barry Ritholtz
#44. Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly, can't go on if we don't, can't stop saying what it means, can't stop giving us something to forgive.
James Richardson
#45. There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered.
Ann Zwinger
#46. Yet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not happy in your? Twang. It snapped.
James Joyce
#47. People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.
Muriel Spark
#48. Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
Fernando Pessoa
#49. Our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.
Alain De Botton
#50. I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.
James C. Scott
#51. I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Moliere
#52. Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
Edouard Manet
#53. I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for the book, but I don't have to pay more in my time to read a book that bores me. If I don't enjoy reading it, why read it? For my original investment in the book? That's silly.
Jon Spoelstra
#54. The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
Babe Paley
#55. I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
Keith Richards
#56. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#57. Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.
Mason Cooley
#58. Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears.
Alanis Morissette
#59. When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
Patrick DeWitt
#60. Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
Emily Post
#61. DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.
Alexa Chung
#62. MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.
Evelyn Waugh
#63. I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
Beverly Sills
#64. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
Doris Lessing
#65. His maleness bores me. Nothing is so boring as the phallus, so inherently stupid and stupidly conceited.
D.H. Lawrence
#66. Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe
#70. Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
George Gordon Byron
#71. 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
#72. The person who understands us at first sight, who never irritates us, who never bores, to whom we can pour forth every thought and wish, not only in speech but in silence - that is what I mean by simpatico.
E. M. Forster
#73. When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
Herbert Hoover
#74. If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.
Francois Fenelon
#75. A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W. H. Auden
#76. I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#77. Avoid giving invitations to bores - they will come without.
Eliza Leslie
#78. Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell
#79. Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
Zig Ziglar
#80. All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.
Marianne Von Werefkin
#81. 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 secretly all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
J.D. Salinger
#82. Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
Moss Hart
#83. Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Golding
#84. Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
Edward Abbey
#85. Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis
#88. I just wouldn't want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my
experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both.
Maybe it's a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades.
Daria Snadowsky
#89. I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#90. I like weird. Conformity bores but is inescapable for the most part. We all follow something, even if it is following the goal of wanting to stand apart. We are a sea of ordinary people; it is always the quirk, the flaw or the ingenuity that stands out.
Donna Lynn Hope
#91. I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett
#92. We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.
Sybil Thorndike
#93. I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
John Berryman
#94. I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.
Nicholas Haslam
#95. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
Charles Bukowski
#96. I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.
Franz Kafka
#97. Read what you enjoy, not what bores you.
Nick Hornby
#98. What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
Russell Baker
#99. 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.
Markus Zusak
#100. Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.
Elizabeth McCracken
