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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ideas,
Individuality,
Passion
| Keywords:
else, lives, mimicry, opinions, Other People, passions, quotation, Someone else, their, thoughts
«It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Confession,
Guilt
| Keywords:
absolution, Both of Us, Come With Us, confession, Confessions, given any, gives, give out, not, priest, that, The Confession, U.S., us
«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Irony,
Wit
| Keywords:
For, is a, quotation, serviceable, substitute, substituted, substituting, wit
«If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.»
«I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.»
«Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conversation,
Imagination,
Weather
| Keywords:
about, conversation, last, last out, refuge, The Last, unimaginative, weather, weathered, weathers
«Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
consistency, last, last out, refuge, The Last, unimaginative
«Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Democracy,
Equality,
Human Nature,
Politics
| Keywords:
bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, democracy, For, For the, means, people, simply, The People
«I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Egotism,
witty
| Keywords:
The World I, thoroughly
«The heart was made to be broken»
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