Uneventful. Boring. Tedious. All good adjectives to apply to long-haul travel; much better than exciting, unexpected, and abrupt.
Charles "Charlie" Stross (b. 1964) British writer
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
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The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner parties they think it is their fault.
Henry Kissinger (1923–2024) German-American diplomat
(Attributed)
Quoted by James Naughtie in The Spectator (1 Apr 1995).
The great consolation of righteousness is never having to worry whether you’re a bore.
James Richardson (b. 1950) American poet
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays, # 85 (2001)
All styles are good, except the tiresome kind.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
L’Enfant prodigue, Preface (1736)
We can forgive people who bore us, but never those whom we bore.
[Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶304 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶311]
(Source)
This first appeared in the 3rd (1671) edition.
(Source (French)). Other translations:We often forgive those that have Injured us, but we can never Pardon those that we have Injured.
[tr. Stanhope (1694), ¶304]We often forgive those who tire us, but cannot forgive those whom we tire.
[pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶481]We easily forgive those who weary us; but we never forgive those who are wearied by us.
[ed. Carvill (1835), ¶408]We often pardon those who weary us, but we cannot pardon those whom we weary.
[ed. Gowens (1851), ¶314]We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
[tr. Bund/Friswell (1871), ¶304]We often forgive those who bore us; but we cannot forgive those whom we bore ourselves.
[tr. Stevens (1939), ¶304]We often forgive those who bore us, but that others should find us boring is quite unforgiveable.
[tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶304]We often forgive those who bore us; we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
[tr. Kronenberger (1959), ¶304]We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those who find us boring.
[tr. Tancock (1959), ¶304]We often forgive those who bore us; but never can we forgive those we have bored.
[tr. Whichello (2016) ¶304]
