Famous quotes containing the words smooth and/or bore:
“Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.”
—Bert Leston Taylor (1866–1921)