 | "A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
- Ambrose Bierce
, The Devil's Dictionary. |
| "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
- Bert Leston Taylor
, The So-Called Human Race (1922). |
| "Someone's boring me. I think it's me."
- Dylan Thomas
, in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960). |
| "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
- Ellen Parr
. |
| "Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
- Frank Moore Colby
. |
| "Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored."
- George Saunders
, last words. |
| "A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
. |
| "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
- H. L. Mencken
. |
| "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger
. |
| "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
- John Updike
, Assorted Prose (1965). |