Oscar Wilde Quotes

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

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• I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.

  

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

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• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

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• I want to love life.

  

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• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

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• It takes heart to be in political life.

  

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• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

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• If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

  

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• Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

  

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• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

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• A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

  

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• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

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• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

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• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

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• Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.

  

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• There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

  

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• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

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• Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

  

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• Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Women
  • Passion