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«Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.»
«Literature bores me, especially great literature»
Author: John Berryman (Biographer, Novelist, Poet) | About: Literature | Keywords: bores
«I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores»
Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | About: Vice, Virtue | Keywords: bores
«One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.»
«One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.»
«Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | Keywords: bores, sums, whores
«The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: bores, dragons, succeeded
«Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Society | Keywords: bores, horde, hordes, polished
«My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's»
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»

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