Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

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• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Living
  • Lie
  • Secrets

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Secrets

• Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • House
  • Politics
  • Secrets

• After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • Right
  • Secrets

• I have no secrets.

  

  Larry David
  • Secrets

• Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Feel
  • Better

• I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • People
  • Think
  • Secrets

• There are few secrets in football. So execute.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Football
  • Secrets
  • Few

• 'The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Law

• Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

  

  Ben McKenzie
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Worry

• It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Trying
  • Question

• Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies

• 'Prince of parable, I desire to see those gardens of lasting delight which Allah-the Creator! the Ever Beneficent!-reserves for the faithful. How am I to do so if I tell lies?' 'By lying to Allah, I suppose.'

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Desire
  • Lies
  • Prince

• So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • People
  • Secrets
  • Constructed

• Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Bad
  • History
  • Religious

• My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Choices
  • Loss

• The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

  

  Alan Gussow
  • Earth
  • Environment
  • Humanity

• There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • British actors
  • Film Stars
  • Theatre actors

• Sphinxes without secrets.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Secrets
  • Sphinxes