Quotes by Bores Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. Elsa Maxwell bores cemetery stills Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." Emily Post alas polite bores the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. Ethel Smyth bores majority reader When a thing bores you, do not do it. Eugene Delacroix bores-you bores boredom We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. Francois Truffaut human-condition bores forgiving We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld bores forgiving We always get bored with those whom we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld bores bored We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld bores boredom thinking We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. Francois de La Rochefoucauld weary bores company What I know bores me. Garry Winogrand bores knows The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. Geoffrey Beene concubines concealed bores Plato was a bore. Friedrich Nietzsche bores plato philosophy Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Gerald Brenan bores boredom oneself to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored. George Eliot bores bored thinking Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000. Harold Nicolson bores persons interesting I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat. Henry Cavill backup bores defeat He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. Herbert Beerbohm Tree bores graves sarcastic [About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland. Ian Rankin colleagues scotland bores More is more and less is a bore. Iris Apfel bores fashion We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody. J. A. Spender bores remember «12345»