Oscar Wilde Quotes

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

Oscar Wilde

• Mirror
• Rejection
• Realism
• Romanticism

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• I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Expenditures rise to meet income.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Meet
  • Rise
  • Income

• I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Morning
  • Everyday
  • Shoes

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Stop

• On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Security
  • Year
  • Top

• My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Me
  • Rest

• I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Trump
  • Said

• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • America
  • Realize

• When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • American
  • Help
  • Game

• Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Time
  • Know
  • Silly

• If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

  

  Tana French
  • You
  • Need
  • Terrible

• I love Al Pacino.

  

  Rain
  • Love
  • I Love
  • al

• You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• For me, I knew the Christy flat was a beautiful shoe, but I had no idea the incredible trend that would follow – I mean, it's the most copied thing ever!

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Beautiful
  • Follow
  • Knew

• The path to diversity begins with supporting, mentoring, and sponsoring diverse women and men to become leaders and entrepreneurs.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Path

• History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • History

• No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Help

• That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Afraid
  • Respected
  • God Knows

• The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mirror
  • Rejection
  • Realism