Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game: "A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
andrea and added
A ‘boring person’ is merely someone lacking the courage to be sufficiently in touch with the more troubled visceral parts of themselves.
The School of Life • The School of Life: Quotes to Live By: A collection to revive and inspire
my sincerest apologies for the silence. Rather think of my silence as listening really well
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that terrible taedium vitae, that comes on those to whom life denies nothing;
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot, 1879
— George Eliot, 1879
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rob hardy and added
if you like thinking, it’s important to be around people who also enjoy thinking/ideas, otherwise you have to constantly empty your mind to fill it up with the shared context needed to relate to others.. this often ends up being emptier topics like people, small talk, gossip, etc
sari added
Oscar Wilde on pseudonyms:
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Michael Dean added