There is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth.... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

What I Have Gathered (ed. 1923)