Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.                                      Ambrose Bierce

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

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.                                 Ellen Parr

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.                             Frank Moore Colby

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. George Saunders

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

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.                             John Updike

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.                  Nancy Astor

Every hero becomes a bore at last.        Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.   William Shakespeare