Bores

"BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."

"Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."

"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves."

"…had that worst bump developed that can adorn the head of a bore—viz., long-story-tellativeness."

"Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores."

"L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité."

"That old hereditary bore, The steward."

"Again I hear that creaking step!— He's rapping at the door! Too well I know the boding sound That ushers in a bore."

"He says a thousand pleasant things,— But never says "Adieu.""

"O, he's as tedious As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, In any summer-house in Christendom."