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«I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self Importance,
Sophistication,
witty
| Keywords:
in good taste, satisfied, simplest, tastes
«I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.»
«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
«I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Fool,
Literary,
Satire,
witty,
Writing
| Keywords:
publish, Right or Wrong, satire, Satires, theme, theme song
«I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Egotism,
Gossip,
Self awareness,
witty
| Keywords:
all, as we say, at all, back, backed up, backing, back out, back to back, behind, behinds, conceited, far, from way back, furthest, get behind, knowing, like, makes, making known, On Our Backs, people, say, Say Any, take back, too, WHAT
«I can believe anything provided it is incredible.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Belief,
Imagination,
witty
| Keywords:
anything, incredible, provided
«I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Funny,
Insults,
witty
| Keywords:
a lot, egged, egging, eggs, egg on, hard-boiled, hard-boiled egg, hardboiled, lot, meet up with, met, minutes, The Eggs, The Met, time, twenties, twenty
«How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Marriage,
Men,
Relationships,
witty,
Women
| Keywords:
As If, being, can, expected, happy, her, He Said She Said, how, human, human being, insisted, insists, make happy, man, More Than Human, normal, perfectly, She, to be, treating, were, WHO, with, woman
«I have nothing to declare except my genius.»
«I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.»
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