And when they bore me overmuch, I will not shake mine ears, Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears. And when they labor to impress, I will not doubt nor scoff; Since I myself have done no less and – sometimes pulled it off! Yea, as we are and we are not, […]
Boredom - Boring Quotes
Boredom lies only with the traveler’s limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
The speaker bores you, gentlemen? He’s also boring me. But praise him when he’s thru – He comes to us for free!
We always get bored with those whom we bore.
Only one person in a thousand is a bore and he is interesting because he is one person in a thousand.
We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
Plato was a bore.
A savorless people, gulping tasteless food and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. – A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.
