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Quotes About Bores

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
~ Charles Dickens
Have I become one of those bores who talk too much about their children?
~ Ralph Ellison
Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly, can't go on if we don't, can't stop saying what it means, can't stop giving us something to forgive.
~ James Richardson
Parabore (n.) A defense against bores. It would be a very lovely thing indeed if there existed some magical device that you could carry around with you to ward off bores. The closest thing to this I have seen is a contraption Alix gave me a few years back: a little black box on a key chain that will turn off every nearby TV with the push of a button. I carried it with me everywhere and used it whenever I came across that particular form of boredom. Paracme
~ Ammon Shea
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
~ Andre Gide
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.
~ Lord Byron
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
~ Andre Gide
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
~ Edward Bond
Possibly they would be consigned to the Hospital for Incurable Bores, and made to work at being bored for so many hours a day by the Erewhonian inhabitants of the hospital, who are extremely impatient of one another's boredom, but would soon die if they had no one whom they might bore--in fact, that they would be kept as professional borees.
~ Samuel Butler
And so the permanent public servant will be teased by the wits, oppressed by the bores, and massacred by the innovators of Parliament.
~ bagehot walter xv
I think it was your language," Miranda said mildly. "She said most of them were idiots, too." "That is not at all what I said," Olivia put in. "I said they were bores." "Sheep," Miranda confirmed. "Goats," Olivia added with a shrug. Turner began to look alarmed. "Good God, do the two of you speak your own language?
~ Julia Quinn
Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
~ byron lord
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
~ Anatole France
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
~ Charles Dickens
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron
Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron
Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron, Don Juan