Oscar Wilde Quotes
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz -
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde -
I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
Larry King -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom -
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long
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I have no trouble sleeping.
Dalai Lama -
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx -
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp -
I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
Sam Hunt -
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
Rachel Cusk -
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Larry McMurtry
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
Daniel Espinosa -
I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
Farooq Abdullah -
Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
Adam McKay -
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
Nathan Fillion -
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
Carlton Cuse
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In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.
Willa Cather -
I have gone into the waste lonely places
Theodore Roethke -
Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.
Lesley Lawson -
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Earl Warren -
I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.
Barbara Mikulski -
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
Oscar Wilde