If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be?not understood, but divined.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I?m past that age.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Family lore can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it on for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.