Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Oscar WildeThe Relation of Dress to Art (1885)
About Oscar Wilde
Irish playwright and wit, author of The Importance of Being Earnest. (1854-1900)
More from Oscar Wilde
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
- I can resist everything except temptation.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act I
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), ch. 1
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act I
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- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut
- Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury
- We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.Ray Bradbury
- I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.Wayne Gretzky
- Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee
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