Bores Quotes
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“That old hereditary bore,
The steward.”
“L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité.”
“Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores.”
“BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
“He says a thousand pleasant things,—
But never says "Adieu."”
“bores”
“Boredom”
“Society is now one polished horde,
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”
“…had that worst bump developed that can adorn the head of a bore—viz., long-story-tellativeness.”
“The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.”
“Again I hear that creaking step!—
He's rapping at the door!
Too well I know the boding sound
That ushers in a bore.”
“O, he's as tedious
As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom.”