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“Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Things last either too long or not long enough.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“My existence is a scandal.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“People never think of cultivating a young girl’s imagination. It is the great defect of modern education.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“We live in the age of the over-worked, and under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The man who fears losing has already lost.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."

"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure."

"I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said.

"Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs."

And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune.

When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones