(317 quotes found)
“Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.”
A. A. Milne
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.”
William Allen White
“I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don’t hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they’re all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.”
J. D. Salinger
“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“I'm afraid of nothing except being bored”
Greta Garbo
“An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations”
“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.”
W. R. Inge
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Charles Baudelaire
“I am bored with it all.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.”
William Saroyan
