Famous quotes containing the word bore:
“Eve: I’m afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long.
Miss Caswell: You won’t bore him, honey. You won’t even get a chance to talk.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“If from the earth we came, it was an earth
That bore us as a part of all the things
It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows
The same. We parallel the mother’s death.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labour bore fruit.”
—George Mikes (b. 1912)