Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

A finished person is a boring person.

Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999

The cure for boredom¹ is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders, last words

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude² without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)

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

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

The nice thing about being a celebrity³ is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted⁴ Prose (1965)

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale

Vexing⁵ the dull ear of a drowsy⁶ man.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4

[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922