Bores Quotes
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens -
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Auguste Renoir
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
Patrick deWitt -
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
Oscar Wilde -
Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell -
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
Paul Auster -
Writing bores me so.
Oscar Wilde
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren Kierkegaard -
He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
Adam Jones -
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
Vicki Baum -
If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.
Emilio Pucci -
If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
Louise Brooks
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
LL Cool J -
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
Anita Loos -
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
William Osler -
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
J. A. Spender -
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
Vita Sackville-West -
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Golding -
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
Garry Winogrand -
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
William Hazlitt -
What I know bores me.
Garry Winogrand