Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
The cure for boredom1 is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, last words
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude2 without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The nice thing about being a celebrity3 is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted4 Prose (1965)
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing5 the dull ear of a drowsy6 man.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
