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Bores and Boredom QuotesFamous Bores and Boredom quotes by popular authors such as La Rochefoucauld, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ambrose Bierce, J. G. Saxe, John Updike and others.
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[highlight-text]A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Dullness is a misdemeanour.
Ethel Wilson
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[highlight-text]Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
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[highlight-text]Boredom is the fear of self.
Comtesse Diane
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[highlight-text]The devil's name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee
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[highlight-text]Getting bored is not allowed.
Kay Thompson
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[highlight-text]His shortcoming is his long staying.
Lewis L. Lewisohn
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[highlight-text]He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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[highlight-text]The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
Jacques-Binigne Bossuet
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[highlight-text]Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
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[highlight-text]He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says 'Adieu'
J. G. Saxe
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[highlight-text]The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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[highlight-text]When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
Jean Paul Richter
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[highlight-text]The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
William Dean Howells
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[highlight-text]A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Cravina
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[highlight-text]Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.
Bruce Herschensohn
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[highlight-text]The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes: The Bores and the Bored.
Lord Byron
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[highlight-text]Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.
Sydney Smith
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[highlight-text]A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike
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[highlight-text]Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry
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[highlight-text]The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
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[highlight-text]How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.
Sir Arthur Helps