(299 quotes found)
“A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.”
W. H. Auden
“The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.”
Frank Tyger
“Literature bores me, especially great literature”
John Berryman
“Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.”
George Sanders
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything”
Voltaire
“If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.”
Gustav Mahler
“Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better”
Robert Half
“Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.”
Michelle Pfeiffer
“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
Henry Louis Mencken