Oscar Wilde Quotes

The final mystery is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

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• Oneself
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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Like
  • Thought

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
  • Benefits
  • U.S.

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fancies

• When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Find

• It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Reality
  • Stop
  • Problem

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Society
  • Know
  • Short

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Me
  • Listening

• Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Think

• I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Crime

• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Truth
  • Author

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Best
  • Destroy
  • Final

• Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Music
  • Laughter

• I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Mystery

• The final mystery is oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mystery
  • Oneself
  • Final