Bore

Famous quotes containing the word bore:

“If parents would only realize how they bore their children!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“There is no bore like a clever bore.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)