Quotes About The Boor

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

Honore De Balzac

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Rob Corddry

#8. 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

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

D.H. Lawrence

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

Roger L'Estrange