Quotes About Bore

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

Gerald Brenan

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

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.  

H.L. Mencken

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. 

Maria Edgeworth

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking, but that he won't let you stop listening.  

Author Unknown

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

Francois

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living.  Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.  

Lemony Snicket

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. 

Don Marquis

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. 

John Updike

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. 

Jules Renard

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.  

Frank Moore Colby

Bore:  A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.  

Gian Vincenzo Gravina

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.  

James Russell Lowell