Best Bores You Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.”

Ifs Feels Christianity Ease Bores Amusement Bores You

Author:Francois Fenelon

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

People Writing Ideas Differences Bored Bores Daydreaming Creativity And Writing Bores You Being Bored

Author:Neil Gaiman

“History is the same thing over and over again.”

“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”

Want Literature Too Much Logic Remains Annoying Artificial Bores Constructs Annoyed Elude Bores You

Author:Andre Gide

“Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”

Years Long Understood Complexes Explanation Formulas Bores Mathematician Fourteen Subtlety Ratios Bores You Hobos

Author:Gary Reilly

“Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.”

People Thinking Firsts Said Felt Bits First Time Bores Homework You Again Bores You

Author:Will Arnett

“Only those who want everything done for them are bored.”

Want Done Bored Boredom Laziness Bores Bores You Being Bored

Author:Billy Graham

“Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.”

Matter Mother Church Baby Arms Catholic Russia Hats Flags Bores Coats Spain Catholic Church Bores You

Author:Ilka Chase

“I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Mind Wells Would Be Faces Fall Fun Enjoy Music Music Is Criticism Edges Clever Flats Bores Bores You

Author:John Lennon

“When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!”

Play Silence Music Bores Bores You

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."”

People Bigs Faces Attitude Boys Seeing Grew Grew Up Towns Bores Time Of My Life Bores You Old Places

Author:Johnny Carson

“I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".”

Want Humor Funny Jobs Lost Details Bores Cricket Commentators Bores You

Author:Milton Jones

“When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.”

People Bored Boredom Bores Bores You Funny Boredom

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.”

“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.”

Ifs World Want Persons Whole Running Evening Fascinating Running Away Bores Delighted Bores You

Author:Emilio Pucci

“I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.”

Way Reason Reason Why Thieves Bores Congressman Bores You

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.”

Trying Truth Beautiful Imagination Beauty Creativity Discovery Intuition Enthusiasm Bored Boredom Bores You Funny Boredom

Book:Our present discontents

Source: Our present discontents

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...”

Way Book Reading Library One Way Drag Bores Dropping Bookshops Bores You

Author:Doris Lessing

“Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.”

World Humans Evil Human Beings Wonder Roots Spread Bored Boredom Bores Backwards Bores You

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“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.”

Men Principles Prove Boredom Bores Great Friend Bores You

Book:Either/ Or

Source: Either/ Or

“I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.”

Want Insanity Boredom Feeling Sorry Ideas And Innovation Bores You Definition Of Insanity Trying Different Things Saying The Same Thing Over And Over Don't Be Sorry

Author:Dylan Moran

“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”

“I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.”

Stories Too Much Bores Life Story Bores You

Author:Elvis Presley

“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

Persons Wish Silence Listening Boredom Bores Listen To Yourself Listening To Others Bores You Talking And Listening Effective Listening

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

Work Virtue Blessing Luck Bored Boredom Time Management Bores Punctuality Punctual Bores You Brideshead Revisited Funny Boredom Promptness

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!”

Men Order Plans Doors Subjects Becoming Clothes Boring Revenge Old Man Hiding Abandoned Sensible Bores Lamps Bores You Disconnecting

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.”

Ifs Knives Bores Bores You

Author:Louise Brooks

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Way Feels Book Remember Reading Doors Movement Ought Twenties Library One Way Thirty Fifty Forty Trends Drag Bores Right Time Dropping Bookshops Bores You

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

Company Solitude Novelists Boredom Providing Bores Introvert Playwright Essayists Loneliness And Solitude Bores You Funny Boredom

Author:Oscar Wilde

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

People Book Humor Funny My Own Drink Entrepreneur Beer Bores Businessman Insperational Own Business Bores You Purpose Of Business

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition

“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”

People Ifs Knives Bores Bores You

Author:Louise Brooks

“I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Moving Dies Girl Sound Realizing Bores Terrific Keep Moving Holding Hands Bores You

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.”

Book Care Race Fire Reader Pages Take Care Speed Ignorant Bores Summary Bores You Burn Book

Book:The Giant's House

Source: The Giant's House

“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”

Persons Fear Wise Society Bored Boredom Bores Wise Person Bores You Being Bored

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”

Ifs Thinking Different Hands Bigs Moving Dies Girl Deals Position Quitting Worried Bores Terrific Big Deal Jane Keep Moving Holding Hands Bores You

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar) Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? ‘Ooo, I’m the big evil. I’m going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I’m just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I’m trying to intimidate you.' (Kat)”

Trying Done Bigs Guy Suffering Dies Evil Speak Waiting Tears Brother Sick Likes My Brother Demon Bores Bullshit Bad Guys Intimidating Monologues Bores You

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.”

People Feels Humor Funny Walking Desert Bags Bores Adulthood Bores You

Author:Dylan Moran

“If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.”

Ifs Sleep Bores Bores You

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”

Men Bored Boredom Bores Bores You

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”

Trying Two Literature Bored Bores Polished This Society Horde Bores You

Author:Lord Byron

“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”

“I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.”

Ifs Mother Hate Balance Sorrow Treated Bores Agony Don't Hate Bores You Hate Her

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.”

People Trying Philosophy Wish My Own Trouble Following Useless Bored Repeats Bores Wish You Bores You

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Book Remember Doors Twenties Thirty Fifty Forty Bores Right Time Bookshops Bores You

Author:Doris Lessing

“You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

Needs Littles Enthusiasm Bored Boredom Little Things Bores Thrill Bores You

Author:Andy Warhol

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”

“Oh dear," said Jace..."I hope that wasn't anything important." "It was a sleeping potion," she said angrily, toeing the vial with the tip of a sneaker. "And now it's gone." "If only Simon were here. He could bore you to sleep.”

Ifs Said Important Sleep Gone Dear Bores Jace Sneakers Bores You

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.”

Men Waste Bores Bores You

Book:How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life

Source: How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life

“Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be "cool." Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?”

People Ifs World Looks Fun Crazy Like You Bored Bores Being Cool Hobbes Bores You Genuineness Being Bored Cool People Sombreros

Author:Bill Watterson

“The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.”

People Success Used Women Achievement Bored Boredom Bores Penalties Bores You Being Bored Funny Boredom

Author:Nancy Astor

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