Oblique Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all…
— Tryon Edwards
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What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds.…
— Berthold Auerbach
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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
— Minna Antrim
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This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the…
— Plutarch
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As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.
— Andrew Marvell
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The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue…
— Pete Townshend
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
— Samuel Johnson
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A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied,…
— J. D. McClatchy
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Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public…
— William Davenant
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
— John Grierson
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I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come…
— Evelyn Waugh
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That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the…
— James A. Baldwin
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Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side…
— John O'Donohue
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Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be…
— Anne Lamott
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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An oblique angle,†Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!
— Amanda Hocking
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Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most…
— Nicole Krauss
Who Wrote These Oblique Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Oblique Quotes as follows: