Best Last Refuge Quotes
55 Last Refuge quotes by 39 unique authors
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Oscar Wilde
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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
— Tony Wilson
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I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
— Neil Gaiman
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
— Oscar Wilde
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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
— Oscar Wilde
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
— Thomas Sowell
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Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.
— Cassandra Clare
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They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot…
— Bob Dylan
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk…
— Umberto Eco
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
— Tracy Letts
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Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality
— Mira Grant
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Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
— Joseph J. Ellis
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If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but…
— Ralph Barton Perry
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Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled…
— Antonio Damasio
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The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two…
— Jonathan Zittrain
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Oscar Wilde
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Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
— Henry S. Haskins
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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
— Oscar Wilde
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Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
— William Samuel Johnson
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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind
— Unknown Author
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Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.
— Oscar Wilde
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Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
— Oscar Wilde
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