| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and the bored. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me. -- Bret Harte |
| Author:
Harte, BretEra:
1836 |
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| Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. -- Gustave Le Bon |
| Author:
Le Bon, GustaveEra:
1841 |
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| If parents would only realize how they bore their children! -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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