Oscar Wilde Quotes

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
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• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Dance
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• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
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• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
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• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
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• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
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• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Everything
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  • Wants

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Power
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• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Men
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• There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Good
  • Work
  • Home

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and they would write songs and develop themselves as artists. But then, instead of getting a little bit more credible, it got a little bit more ridiculous.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • People
  • Time
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• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• 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

• I have - and always will - stand up against efforts to limit a woman's right to choose.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Up

• To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Youth