Dhania's quotes

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"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency
87 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,423 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,448 people liked it

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
— Oscar Wilde

35 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,683 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,602 people liked it

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: fiction
110 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,847 people liked it

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
— Oscar Wilde

72 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,269 people liked it

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

14 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,847 people liked it

"Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: vida
4 people liked it

"Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities."
— Mark Twain

tags: advice, life
20 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,228 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,685 people liked it

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head."
— Mark Twain

42 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
6,021 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,387 people liked it

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: writing
197 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,562 people liked it

"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing."
— Mark Twain

tags: spelling
6 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,026 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,997 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,449 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,449 people liked it

"If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking. "
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

tags: can, if, match, me, you
14 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,742 people liked it

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. "
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, success
134 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,885 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,270 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,376 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,112 people liked it

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: books, morality, reading, writing
768 people liked it

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

tags: sin
730 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
788 people liked it

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
607 people liked it

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: breakfast, brilliant, insults
477 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
718 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
912 people liked it

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion
367 people liked it

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america
276 people liked it

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: humor
200 people liked it