When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.