“ Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive. ”
- Harold Coffin- Copy
- 2.8K
“ There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. ”
- James Connolly- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
- 868
“ Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ”
- Gerald Brenan- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 1.9K
“ He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.7K
“ You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them. ”
- Marlon Brando- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. ”
- John Mortimer- Copy
- 3.7K
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