Oscar Wilde Quotes

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

Oscar Wilde

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• Felt
• Tragic
• Charmed

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• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Yourself

• Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Life
  • Important
  • Health

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Yourself

• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Father
  • Person
  • Felt

• When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Yourself
  • Chocolate
  • Medical

• I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Support

• What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Help
  • Day

• You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself
  • Look

• Songwriters tell the truth.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Truth
  • Tell
  • Songwriters

• Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

  

  Kanye West
  • Me
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• I've felt ugly and insecure.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Ugly
  • Felt
  • Insecure

• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Reader
  • Tell

• Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Learn
  • See
  • Pleasures

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Important
  • Sound
  • Exactitude

• It is a spectacular example of Mughal architecture, blends Islamic, Hindu, and Persian styles.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Architecture
  • Islamic

• If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Virtue
  • Disposition

• Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

  

  Dan Harris
  • Brain
  • Exercise
  • Meditation

• There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Tell
  • Felt
  • Tragic