Quotes of Penetrate - somelinesforyou

“ Less is a bore. ”

- Robert Venturi

“ Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The only thing worse than being bored is being boring. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ Holidays help because they come with stories, and the Hanukkah story is good for relaying that the divine pervades everything, even darkness. ”

- Unknown

“ The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive. ”

- Harold Coffin

“ There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Dullness is a misdemeanour. ”

- Ethel Wilson

“ The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws. ”

- Unknown

“ A well-aimed spear is worth three. ”

- Tad Williams

“ Plato was a bore. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ 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

“ Boredom is rage spread thin. ”

- Paul Tillich

“ True friends stab you in the front. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ”

- Gerald Brenan

“ Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ”

- Don Marquis

“ He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Time is running out to permeate the piece. ”

- Tommy Tune

“ Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ 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

“ There is no bore like a clever bore. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them. ”

- Marlon Brando

“ Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. ”

- Ed Koch

“ Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. ”

- Auberon Waugh

“ I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. ”

- Julian Green

“ The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. ”

- John Mortimer

“ He is not only a bore but he bores for England. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ”

- Joe Clark
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