bore quotes

Much in life cannot be affected†but must be borne†without complaint, because complaints are a bore†and undermine the serenity essential to endurance.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
Quoted in Gaddis Smith  American Secretaries of State (1972).

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

- Saul Bellow
  Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.6.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Representative Men,'Uses of Great Men'.

A colossal bore† I feel I could write something like it tomorrow, if my cat inspired me by walking over the piano. See Gounod 365:26.

- Prosper Me  rime  e
Of  Wagner's opera Tannha«  user, after the disastrous premi e' re of its revised version at the Paris Ope  ra,13 Mar. Quoted in  Joanna Richardson La Vie Parisienne (1971), p.262.

A chryselephantine poem of immeasurable length which will occupy me for the next four decades unless it becomes a bore.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Onbeginning the poetic seriesTheCantos, which remained unfinished on his death.

People find ideas a bore becausetheydo not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Guide to Kulcher, pt.1, section1, ch.5.

'I believe I take precedence,' he said coldly; 'you are merely the Club Bore: I am the Club Liar.'

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Beasts and Super-Beasts,'A Defensive Diamond'.

Will there never come a season Which shall rid us of the curse Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse† When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

-J(ames) K(enneth) Stephen
'To R K'.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

- Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm Tree
Of Israel Zangill. Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Assorted Prose,'Confessions of aWild Bore'.

: I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! :To be in it is merelya bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
GERALDLORD ILLINGWORTH1893  AWoman of No Importance, act 3.