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.

Oscar Wilde

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

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

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

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition

• 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
  • Find
  • Look

• 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
  • Bad
  • Earth

• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Here

• 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
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

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

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

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

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
  • Out

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• 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
  • Money

• 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
  • Conflict
  • 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
  • Truth

• 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
  • Community
  • Service

• 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

• Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

  

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mistake

• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • People

• 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