Oscar Wilde Quotes

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Oscar Wilde

• Joy
• Place
• Pleasure
• Cruelty

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Place
  • Just

• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Political
  • Action
  • Place

• 'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Fun

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Love
  • Place
  • Cowboy

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Place
  • Sail

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Place
  • Biology

• I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Place
  • Where
  • Favourite

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Joy

• I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Write
  • Place

• I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Think
  • Peace
  • Joy

• Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

  

  William Law
  • Thinking
  • Pleasure
  • Equal

• I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Band

• In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Presidential
  • Voting

• Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Together
  • Magic
  • Vulnerability

• I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Racism

• Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Joy
  • Place
  • Pleasure