In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.
The Grand Duke never entered my room except for the purpose of pacing up and down it, talking to me of matters which, no doubt, interested him, but had no interest whatever for me …. when he left me, it was a delightful relief to turn even to the most tedious book
She replaced her husband as the ruler of Russia.
What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.
Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
