A Quote by Richard Connell

There is no greater bore than perfection.

Richard Connell

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Bore Greater Perfection Than

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Richard Connell
American - Author
October 17, 1893 - November 22, 1949

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

Vita Sackville-West

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Vita Sackville-West

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Thomas Aquinas

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Bruce Lee

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

Gertrude Atherton

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

H. L. Mencken

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

Francine Pascal

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

Joanne Greenberg

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

Tryon Edwards

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

H. L. Mencken

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

Max Lerner

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.