“ A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Gian Vincenzo Cravina
“ Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk. Bruce Herschensohn
“ Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation. Andy Heaton
“ He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music. Sydney Smith
“ A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike
“ Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. R. I. Fitzhenry
“ Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair. Charles Caleb Colton
