p. 120 http://books.google.it/books?id=lpuZIgerNroC&pg=PA120 (1997 edition)
Gravity and Grace (1947)
“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring…”
Last update June 3, 2021.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring…" by André Gide?
André Gide 74
French novelist and essayist 1869–1951Related quotes
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”
Cecil Graham, Act III
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”
Eric Hoffer
(1898–1983) American philosopher
“I give boring people something to discuss over corn.”
Aimee Bender
(1969) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”
Louise Brooks
(1906–1985) American dancer and actress
Lulu in Hollywood (1982)
“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet