Oscar Wilde Quotes

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Oscar Wilde

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Marketing
  • Selfish

• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Consequences
  • Cope

• The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Objectives
  • Incapable

• I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Energy
  • Feel
  • Young

• Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

  

  Jack Germond
  • She
  • Humor
  • Group

• I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Soccer
  • Fan
  • Sure

• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Something
  • Respond

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Best

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • All Things

• My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Man
  • Know
  • Old

• We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• Even though most of us love, love, love it when we're flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we'd do with more of it, we'd feel gross saying 'I love money' out loud.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Money

• 'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Philosophy
  • Sorrow
  • Guilt

• The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"

  

  Cate Marvin

• In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Important
  • Style
  • Matters