Boredom Quotes The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.     Nancy Astor Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.     Ambrose Bierce Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.     Frank Moore Colby Every hero becomes a bore at last.     Ralph Waldo Emerson [S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.     Zelda Fitzgerald A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.     Gian Vincenzo Gravina The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.     H. L. Mencken The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.     Henry Kissinger The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.     Dorothy Parker Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.     George Saunders Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.     William Shakespeare A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.     Bert Leston Taylor Someone's boring me. I think it's me.     Dylan Thomas A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.     John Updike The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.     Voltaire Previous Subject - Books | Next Subject - Brain