BOREDOM

Related Subjects: Satiety, Stupidity

1. Bore, n. A person who talks en you wish him to listen.—AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary

2. Society is now one polish'd horde,
   Formed of two mighty tribes, the
   Bores and Bored.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. I [ Sherlock Holmes] abhor the dull routine of existence, I crave for mental exaltation.—CONAN DOYLE, The Sign of The Four

4. The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.—MARIA EDGEWORTH, Thoughts on Bores

5. He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life

6. We often forgive those who bore us but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

7. Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores.—LOWELL, A Fable for Critics
   

8. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?—NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good & Evil
   

9. Again I hear that creaking step!—
   He's rapping at the door!
   Too well I know the boding sound
   That ushers in a bore.—J. G. SAXE, My Familiar
   

10. I assure you it requires no small talents to be a decided bore.—SCOTT
    

11. O, he's as tedious
    As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife;
    Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
    With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
    Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
    In any summer-house in Christendom.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

12. What a bore it is, waking up in the morning always the same person. I wish I were unflinching and emphatic, and had big, bushy eyebrows and a Message for the Age. I wish I were a deep Thinker, or a great Ventriloquist.—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Trivia
    

13. Many excellent writers, very many painters, and most musicians are so tedious on any subject but their own.—ARTHUR SYMONS, The Symbolist Movement in Literature