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Quotes about Boredom

CP Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
- Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (1914 - 1953)

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger, US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor, British politician (1879 - 1964)

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Ambrose Bierce, US author & satirist (1842 - 1914)

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike, US author (1932 - )

CP A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina, (1664 - 1718)

[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
- Zelda Fitzgerald