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~ Bores and Boredom Quotes
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Bores and Boredom Quotes


Famous Bores and Boredom quotes by popular authors such as La Rochefoucauld, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ambrose Bierce, J. G. Saxe, John Updike and others.




[highlight-text]A yawn is a silent shout.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2016, 11:35:11 AM »
[highlight-text]Dullness is a misdemeanour.

Ethel Wilson

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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2016, 11:37:31 AM »
[highlight-text]Boredom is rage spread thin.

Paul Tillich

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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2016, 11:45:39 AM »
[highlight-text]Boredom is the fear of self.

Comtesse Diane

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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2016, 11:46:31 AM »
[highlight-text]The devil's name is dullness.

Robert E. Lee

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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2016, 11:48:55 AM »
[highlight-text]Getting bored is not allowed.

Kay Thompson

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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2016, 11:50:35 AM »
[highlight-text]His shortcoming is his long staying.

Lewis L. Lewisohn

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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2016, 11:51:33 AM »
[highlight-text]He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2016, 11:53:24 AM »
[highlight-text]The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

Jacques-Binigne Bossuet

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« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2016, 11:54:07 AM »
[highlight-text]Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

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« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2016, 11:54:56 AM »
[highlight-text]A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor

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« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2016, 11:55:56 AM »
[highlight-text]He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says 'Adieu'

J. G. Saxe

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« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2016, 11:57:10 AM »
[highlight-text]The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2016, 12:00:01 PM »
[highlight-text]When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.

Eric Hoffer

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« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2016, 12:06:09 PM »
[highlight-text]A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

Jean Paul Richter