1.
More is more and less is a bore.
Iris Apfel
'Magnitude is preferable to modesty.'
2.
We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
Joseph Prince
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
10.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell
11.
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
Babe Paley
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
14.
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
16.
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
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
23.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
Oscar Wilde
25.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Francois Truffaut
26.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill
27.
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
Harold Nicolson
28.
I have to be excited, I have to have an adrenaline rush about doing something, or it bores me, I feel trapped.
Ricky Gervais
29.
The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
Thomas Hood
30.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
Ed Koch
32.
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
John Mortimer
34.
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
35.
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
Barry Sheene
37.
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
John Cheever
39.
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
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
45.
I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
Truman Capote
46.
Literature bores me, especially great literature
John Berryman
47.
No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
Buddy Rich
48.
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
49.
I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
Rae Dawn Chong