#nat

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cease #fascination #long #looked #popular

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#conversation #last #refuge #unimaginative #weather

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#absolutely nothing #everything #fascinating #kinds #know

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#critical #imagination #imitates #spirit

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#london #man #who #world

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#certainly #checks #directors #like #many

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#her #inflict #jests #most #nature

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ↗

— George Will

#becomes #idiom #language #nation #noise

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

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I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#bits #delighted #grateful #happen #happy