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.

Quotes

 * BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).


 * 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.


 * The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.
 * Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores (1833).


 * …had that worst bump developed that can adorn the head of a bore—viz., long-story-tellativeness.
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed, The New Monthly Magazine (1836)


 * Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores.
 * James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics (1848), line 55.


 * L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité.
 * One day ennui was born from uniformity.
 * , Les Amis trop d'accord, Fables (1719); quotes and translation reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 81.


 * That old hereditary bore, The steward.
 * Samuel Rogers Italy (1822), 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 (1849).


 * He says a thousand pleasant things,— But never says "Adieu."
 * John Godfrey Saxe My Familiar (1849).


 * 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.