Oscar Wilde Quotes

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
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• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Real
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• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
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• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
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• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Help
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• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Believe
  • Die
  • I Believe

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
  • Live
  • Me
  • Die

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Done

• Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Small
  • Shoes

• You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • People
  • Work
  • Judge

• I went to Monsanto, and I spent a lot of time with the scientists there, and I have revised my outlook, and I'm very excited about telling the world. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Time
  • World

• The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

  

  Will Durant
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Evolution

• Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Means
  • Suppose