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Thursday 10 February 2011

Brief, clever and very memorable

One of the many things I enjoy is reading epigrams. Not only are they thought provoking, they’re hugely inspirational and often very funny.

Literary genius Oscar Wilde has delivered some of the best epigrams. Below are a few of my favourites:

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."


"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train."

"Women are made to be loved not understood."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance."

Please share any epigrams or even idioms that you enjoy reading.

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  1. Unknown11 February 2011 at 01:27

    "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." Dear Oscar has provided more bar room philosophers with quotes to pass off as their own than pretty much anyone else. A clever man. Not sure that "women are made to be loved etc" was said with sincerity though?!

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  2. Dave Wilson11 February 2011 at 08:19

    Here's one from one of my heroes David Olgilvy:

    "If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative"

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  3. Jodie Davis14 February 2011 at 08:12

    It's Valentines day today and on my card it reads:

    "To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world."

    How beautiful...

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