Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
War? War is an organized bore.
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Literature bores me, especially great literature
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
It's a sin to bore people.
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.
What I know bores me.
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
