“It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.”
“Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.”
“Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.”
“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”
“The worst sin is to bore.”
“The one unforgivable sin is to be boring”