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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.… — Tryon Edwards
- What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision… — Berthold Auerbach
- There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. — Minna Antrim
- This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest.… — Plutarch
- As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. — Andrew Marvell
- The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it?… — Pete Townshend
- All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. — Samuel Johnson
- A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the… — J. D. McClatchy
- Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its… — Eugene Delacroix
- Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself… — William Davenant
- The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. — John Grierson
- I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis