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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
– Oscar Wilde

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  2. Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that. – Rohan Candappa
  3. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. – Oscar Wilde
  4. You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn’t the lowest form of wit. It’s not even wit at all. – John Flanagan
  5. Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. – Idries Shah
  6. He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed. – Philip Pullman
  7. The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words. – Michelle Hodkin
  8. Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. – Samuel Johnson
  9. Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse ????ons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. – Jerome Stern
  10. A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. – Dorothy L Sayers
  11. In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. – Oscar Wilde
  12. I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses. – Oscar Wilde
  13. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
  14. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
  15. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
  16. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
  17. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
  19. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself – Oscar Wilde
  20. To become a work of art is the object of living. – Oscar Wilde
  21. The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. – Oscar Wilde
  22. The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. – Oscar Wilde
  23. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. – Oscar Wilde
  24. If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk. – Oscar Wilde
  25. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
  26. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
  27. Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose. – Oscar Wilde
  28. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
  29. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices. – Oscar Wilde
  30. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde
  31. It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. – Oscar Wilde
  32. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. – Oscar Wilde
  33. Bad artists always admire each others work. – Oscar Wilde
  34. They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance. – Oscar Wilde
  35. It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. – Oscar Wilde
  36. Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. – Oscar Wilde
  37. You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde
  38. America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. – Oscar Wilde
  39. The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde
  40. Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. – Oscar Wilde

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