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Bores Quotes

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More is more and less is a bore.
Iris Apfel

'Magnitude is preferable to modesty.'
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2.
We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
Joseph Prince

3.
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
Yves Saint Laurent

4.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
Zelda Fitzgerald

5.
Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
Bob Noorda

6.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald Brenan

7.
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
Louise Brooks

8.
The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.
Jean Baudrillard

9.
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
J. R. R. Tolkien

10.
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
Babe Paley

11.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell

12.
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
Marlon Brando

13.
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene

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Movies bore me; especially my own.
Robert Mitchum

15.
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde

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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

17.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
W. H. Auden

18.
Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche

19.
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
Agnes Varda

20.
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind
Peter Steele

21.
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
Steven Morrissey

22.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
Samuel Butler

23.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
Oscar Wilde

24.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Francois Truffaut

25.
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Malcolm Muggeridge

26.
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
J. A. Spender

27.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

28.
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
Harold Nicolson

29.
I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
Ricky Gervais

30.
The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
Thomas Hood

31.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
Ed Koch

32.
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

33.
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
John Mortimer

34.
We often forgive those who bore us,
but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

35.
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
Barry Sheene

36.
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles

37.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

38.
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
John Cheever

39.
There is no greater bore than perfection.
Richard Connell

40.
Unrequited love's a bore.
Lorenz Hart

41.
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos

42.
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Mark Strand

43.
Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
Mason Cooley

44.
When a thing bores you, do not do it.
Eugene Delacroix

45.
I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
Truman Capote

46.
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.
She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.
Kevin Hearne

48.
Literature bores me, especially great literature
John Berryman

49.
No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
Buddy Rich

50.
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
Christopher Hitchens