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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. – Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingRate it:
The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior – Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRate it:
A big book is a big bore. – Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)Rate it:
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come. – William H. McNeillRate it:
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. – Gian Vincenzo GravinaRate it:
Sadako would ask us, "What is junior high like?" or "Is English class hard?" Since we knew she would never see the inside of the junior high school, it was painful to answer her. All we could do was try to ease her feelings by saying things like, "Junior high--what a bore," and "Elementary school was better. – Tomiko KawanoRate it:
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. – Laurence J. PeterRate it:
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. – Bert Leston TaylorRate it:
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. – John UpdikeRate it:
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. – Henry AdamsRate it:
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. – Ambrose BierceRate it:
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. – Oscar WildeRate it:
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. – Benjamin DisraeliRate it:
Every hero becomes a bore at last. – Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. – Frank Moore ColbyRate it:
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace StevensRate it:
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined. – Remy de GourmontRate it:
It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions. – Thomas JeffersonRate it:
It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way. – La Bruy?reRate it:
Just saying; Sorry, cannot compensate, and heal all the griefs and pains that one bore with its tears. – Ehsan SehgalRate it:
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you. – Billy GrahamRate it:
No man thinks he is a bore, although he knows that many of the other men are. – E.W. HoweRate it:
Senor d'Anconia said that you bore him, Mr. Taggart. – Ayn RandRate it:
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. – Henry Louis MenckenRate it:

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

– Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingRate it:

The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior

– Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRate it:

A big book is a big bore.

– Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)Rate it:

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

– William H. McNeillRate it:

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

– Gian Vincenzo GravinaRate it:

Sadako would ask us, "What is junior high like?" or "Is English class hard?" Since we knew she would never see the inside of the junior high school, it was painful to answer her. All we could do was try to ease her feelings by saying things like, "Junior high--what a bore," and "Elementary school was better.

– Tomiko KawanoRate it:

A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

– Laurence J. PeterRate it:

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

– Bert Leston TaylorRate it:

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

– John UpdikeRate it:

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

– Henry AdamsRate it:

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

– Ambrose BierceRate it:

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

– Benjamin DisraeliRate it:

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

– Frank Moore ColbyRate it:

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

– Wallace StevensRate it:

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.

– Remy de GourmontRate it:

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way.

– La Bruy?reRate it:

Just saying; Sorry, cannot compensate, and heal all the griefs and pains that one bore with its tears.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

– Billy GrahamRate it:

No man thinks he is a bore, although he knows that many of the other men are.

– E.W. HoweRate it:

Senor d'Anconia said that you bore him, Mr. Taggart.

– Ayn RandRate it:

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

– Henry Louis MenckenRate it:

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