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Quotations by Subject: Boredom
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
A finished person is a boring person.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Frank Moore Colby
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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George Saunders, last words
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
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Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
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