The secret of being a bore. . . is to tell everything.
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire. . . The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
Unrequited love's a bore.
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn't necessarily translate to the social.
The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.
travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to the needs of the Clan, and was never swayed by self-interest or pride. He would have made a fine leader.