英语名人名言：Boredom 厌倦

　　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

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