It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.
[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
