People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. Pound, Ezra
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire
There is no bore like a clever bore. Butler, Samuel
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. Sackville-West, Vita
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. La Rochefoucauld, François
