Bores

thumb|240px|The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.- Maria Edgeworth (1833) 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. Antoine Houdar de la Motte, 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 tediousAs is a tir'd horse, a railing wife;Worse than a smoky house; I had rather liveWith 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. External links Boredom bores Category:Discourse