Bores Quotes

“Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.”

“We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.”

“He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.”

“All men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. . . . The gods were bored, and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, and so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase of population. Adam was bored alone; then Adam and Eve were bored together; then Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the peoples were bored en masse. To divert themselves they conceived the idea of constructing a tower high enough to reach the heavens. This idea is itself as boring as the tower was high, and constitutes a terrible proof of how boredom gained the upper hand.”

“Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

“When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.”

“A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.”

“Tenacity bores failure.”

“He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.”