"We always get bored with those whom..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.”

“We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.”

“Nothing is so catching as example.”

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

“Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.”

“I'm so bored with it all.”

“Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.”

“Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.”

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”