Quotes on bores

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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Marquis, Don

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Brenan, Gerald

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A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Ford, Henry

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One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Updike, John

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The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Edgeworth, Maria

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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Bierce, Ambrose

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Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gravina, Gian Vincenzo

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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
Howells, William Dean

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
Mencken, H.L.

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

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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
Lowell, James Russell

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Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.
Snicket, Lemony

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

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We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
Spender, J.A.

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The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking, but that he won't let you stop listening.
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