A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Let no man, therefore, lose heart from thinking that he cannot do what others have done before him; for, as I said in my Preface, men are born, and live, and die, always in accordance with the same rules.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom.

Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool.
But you yourself may prove to show it,
Every fool is not a poet.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.

All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them

I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.