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Oscar Wilde
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
tags: humour, oscar-wilde, witticism
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Howard Fast
“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.”
― Howard Fast, April Morning
tags: perspective, witticism
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Dorothy Parker
“The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock
Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock”
― Dorothy Parker
tags: humor, pithy, witticism
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Oscar Wilde
“What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: oscar-wilde, personality, witticism
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Oscar Wilde
“Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
tags: marriage, witticism
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Ogden Nash
“Philo Vance
Needs a kick in the pance.”
― Ogden Nash
tags: quoted-for-truth, witticism
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Raheel Farooq
“No exceptions to exceptions!”
― Raheel Farooq
tags: exceptions, rules, witticism
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Lilian Jackson Braun
“...it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell
tags: witticism
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David Eddings
“Women are almost always angry with us for one reason or another. It's one of the things you'll have to get used to as you get older.”
― David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy
tags: witticism, women
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“Wit to a western ballad’s muse is but sleight of hand to a jester.”
― L. R. Tourmaline
tags: dame-ragnelle-quotes, lady-ragnelle-quotes, philosophy-quotes, the-moonlit-knight-quotes, witticism
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Guy Gavriel Kay
“I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor-the story of my life, I fear.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
tags: witticism
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Salman Rushdie
“The motivations of desire are obscure even to the desirous, the desiring and the desired.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
tags: desire, desiring, desirous, pun, witticism
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Constantina Maud
“Artless acts of trying to impress eyes unimpressed by any art.”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos
tags: art, existentialism, nihilism, philosophy, witticism
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L.R. Tourmaline
“Wit to a western ballad’s muse is but sleight of hand to a jester.”
― L.R. Tourmaline, The Moonlit Knight
tags: arthurian, dame-ragnelle, lady-ragnelle, philosophy, witticism
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