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«A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself»
Author: Lisa Kirk (Actor) | About: Gossip | Keywords: bore, brilliant, conversationalist, gossip, talks
«Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men.For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht | About: War | Keywords: bastard, bitch, bore, heat
«Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.»
«Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.»
Author: Frank Moore Colby | About: Communication | Keywords: bore, improvement
«He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but»
«But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bore it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.»
«He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?»
«A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.»
Author: Henry Ford | Keywords: bore, feats, opens, puts
«All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell»
«A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: bore, bored, contemptible, lets