Famous quotes containing the word bores:
“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Society is now one polished horde,
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)