Boring People Quotes

Most popular boring people quotes

A gossip is one who talks about others; a bore is one who talks about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

conversation gossip

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

funny human nature

Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything. - Don Marquis quote.
Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one-and-a-half times his own weight in other people's patience. - John Updike quote.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one-and-a-half times his own weight in other people's patience.

funny

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. - Gerald Brenan quote.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
A bore is a fellow talker who can change the subject to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. - Dr. Laurence J. Peter quote.
A bore is a fellow talker who can change the subject to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

funny

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. - Sir Max Beerbohm quote.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. - Ruth Gordon quote.
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

age

If you can't stand solitude, maybe you bore others, too.

solitude

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. - Samuel Butler quote.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

boredom

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. - Voltaire quote.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
She has the reputation of being outspoken—by no one. - Jack Paar quote.
She has the reputation of being outspoken—by no one.

witty insults

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
He never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anybody else is permitted to give anything in his presence. - Aneurin Bevan quote.
He never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anybody else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Society is now one polished horde,
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. - Lord Byron quote.
Society is now one polished horde,
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. - Maria Edgeworth quote.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. - Henry Ford quote.
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Bores. People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself. - Lady Blessington quote.
Bores. People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
If you haven't struck oil in five minutes, stop boring! - George Jessel quote.
If you haven't struck oil in five minutes, stop boring!
George Jessel Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables

oratory

Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored. - Joseph Joubert quote.
Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored.

boredom

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. - Louis Kronenberger quote.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of their art. - Dame Edith Sitwell quote.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of their art.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire Sept Discours en vers sur l’homme
If you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. - Oscar Wilde quote.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

earnestness

It is absurd to divide people into good or bad.  People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde quote.
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad.  People are either charming or tedious.

charm

It takes a lot of skills to be virtuous without being boring. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote.
It takes a lot of skills to be virtuous without being boring.

virtue