Much in life cannot be affected†but must be borne†without complaint, because complaints are a bore†and undermine the serenity essential to endurance.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Quoted in Gaddis Smith  American Secretaries of State (1972).

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

-Bellow, Saul
  Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.6.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Representative Men,'Uses of Great Men'.

A colossal bore† I feel I could write something like it tomorrow, if my cat inspired me by walking over the piano. See Gounod 365:26.

-Me¤  rime¤  e, Prosper
Of  Wagner's opera Tannha«  user, after the disastrous premi e' re of its revised version at the Paris Ope¤  ra,13 Mar. Quoted in  Joanna Richardson La Vie Parisienne (1971), p.262.

A chryselephantine poem of immeasurable length which will occupy me for the next four decades unless it becomes a bore.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Onbeginning the poetic seriesTheCantos, which remained unfinished on his death.

People find ideas a bore becausetheydo not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Guide to Kulcher, pt.1, section1, ch.5.

'I believe I take precedence,' he said coldly; 'you are merely the Club Bore: I am the Club Liar.'

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Beasts and Super-Beasts,'A Defensive Diamond'.

Will there never come a season Which shall rid us of the curse Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse† When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

-Stephen,J(ames) K(enneth)
'To R K'.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

-Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm
Of Israel Zangill. Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Assorted Prose,'Confessions of aWild Bore'.

: I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! :To be in it is merelya bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
GERALDLORD ILLINGWORTH1893  AWoman of No Importance, act 3.