Oscar Wilde Quotes

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

Oscar Wilde

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Woman
  • Look
  • Modesty

• Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Science
  • Reflect

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Know
  • Rest

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • House

• Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Contradiction
  • Scares
  • Stimulated

• I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Trying
  • Advice
  • New

• Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • War
  • Worry
  • Shooting

• 'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Important
  • Me
  • Myself

• I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Girl

• We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • World
  • Born
  • Profit

• There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Strong
  • Religion

• In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

  

  Om Puri
  • Know
  • Lost
  • Theatre

• Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

  

  TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
  • Energy
  • Religion
  • Masquerading

• It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Ability
  • Reputation

• In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Writing
  • Building
  • Opponents

• This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dark

• With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reputation
  • Can
  • Gain