46 quotes found
“Tenacity bores failure.”
“Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.”
“He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.”
“How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?”
“We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.”
“Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”
“A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
“A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.”
“The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.”
“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”
“He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.”
“O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.”
“The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.”
“The devil's name is dullness.”
“His shortcoming is his long staying.”
“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.”
“Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”
“Dullness is a misdemeanour.”
“A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”
