A. A. Milne Quotes

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

I find it very boring to keep on talking about myself! Which is why I find giving interviews also very boring.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

Life would be boring without gossip.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.