I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
I try not to bore my readers.
[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
When a thing bores you, do not do it.
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.