“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”

“If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.”

“Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself.

"He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.”

“Call me bored, but don't call me boring.”

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was--boring boring boring.”

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”

“No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about… One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.”

“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.”