Proper noun
Bores (plural Boreses)
A surname from Czech.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. F. Scott Fitzgerald
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe
My own business always bores me to death I prefer other people's. Oscar Wilde
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. Edith Sitwell
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. O. Henry
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. Lord Byron