John Dryden Quotes

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

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.

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I just talk a lot, that's the problem.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

I don't want to repeat myself.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.

Chatterers are a menace.

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

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

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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

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

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.