bored quotes

   It is better that aged diplomats be bored than for young men to die.

-Warren R(obinson) Austin
On soporifically lengthy debates at the United Nations.

Never to be bored, never to be frustrated, never to be alone.

- GeorgeWildman Ball
Defining what  John F Kennedy wanted from the presidency. President Kennedy (1993).

News, Opinion and Advertisment must all come under the head of Entertainment to a reasonable extentor they will not be read.People do not read to be bored. Unless a newspaper can make its material in every department interesting it simply is not read.

-Baron
Publicity handout for the Daily Express, quoted in  A  J P  Taylor Beaverbrook (1972), ch.8.

And moreover my mother taught me as a boy (repeatingly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

-John originally John Allyn Smith Berryman
  'Dream Song No.14'.

I am so bored with it all.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Attributed last words.

We were as nearly bored as enthusiasm would permit.

- Sir Edmund Gosse
Of a playby AlgernonSwinburne. Quotedin C Hassall Biography of Edward Marsh.

Dear World,Iam leaving because Iam bored.IfeelIhave lived long enough.I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool.Good luck.

- George Sanders
  His suicide note.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Diary note, 26 Mar.

An English peer of the right sort can be bored nearer to the point where mortification sets in, without showing it, than anyone else in the world.

-Plum
  Something Fresh, ch.3.