A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

Elton John

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

Sydney Pollack

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Anthony Hopkins

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

John Berryman

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Carolyn Murphy

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Tommy Lee Jones

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Oscar Wilde

Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Marie de Gournay

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Harriet Martineau

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Karl Kraus

Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

Paul Murray

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.