Bores

Bores are people who inspire boredom, usually through a lack of social skills and an inability to understand that their topics of conversation are of no interest to their listeners.

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• Society is now one polished horde,
  Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIII, Stanza 95.

• O, he's as tedious
  As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife;
  Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
  With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
  Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
  In any summer-house in Christendom.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act III, scene I, line 159.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 81.

• The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.
  • Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores.

• Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores.
  • James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics, line 55.

• L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité.
  • One day ennui was born from uniformity.
  • Motte.

• That old hereditary bore,
  The steward.
  • Samuel Rogers, Italy, A Character, line 13.

• Again I hear that creaking step!—
  He's rapping at the door!
  Too well I know the boding sound
  That ushers in a bore.
  • John Godfrey Saxe, My Familiar.

• He says a thousand pleasant things,—
  But never says "Adieu."
  • John Godfrey Saxe, My Familiar.