Bernadette Devlin Quotes

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

I never have anything to talk about.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.

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

I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life.

a majority of those congregated in any Washington bar room.

It surprises me all the more that so many thousands of adult men should have such a childish passion for watching galloping horses and drivers standing in chariots, over and over again.... When I think how this futile, tedious, monotonous business can keep them sitting endlessly in their seats, I take pleasure in the fact that their pleasure is not mine.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

When you have to do small talk, you know, 'Hello, how are you?' after that, I don't know what to do. I go, 'OK, then,' and walk away.

When I'm in a bar I need to be the coolest one that can drink more than anyone else and I need the girls to fancy me.

I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

I am very bad at schmoozing, and I'm not overtly charming in social situations.

I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

I guess guys are intimidated. I've never had a guy come up to me and be like, 'Hi, you alright? Can I buy you a drink?'

Men need to be with women otherwise I don't think they really know how to behave. They'll just stare at me and it's awkward, so I scramble around in my mind to say the rudest things I can think of just to get something out of them.

I grew up with brothers, so I very easily get along with men.