Bore Quotes

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

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

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

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

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

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

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Never ask a bore a question.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

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

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

Plato was a bore.