Oscar Wilde Quotes

Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it.

Oscar Wilde

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• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Million
  • Diabetes
  • Latino

• I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Wonder
  • Care
  • Exercise

• I love Costco.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Costco

• I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Same

• I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Shoes
  • Sexy
  • Brand

• Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Interesting

• Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • Success
  • Giving

• Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writer
  • Freak
  • Examination

• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Character
  • Effort
  • Moral

• We didn't do enough offensively to get it done, and we don't usually say that.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Offensively

• I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we're not intimidated by terrorist organisations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Inflation is not even a remote risk in the U.S.. Because inflation is so low, monetary policy can afford to be patient to be sure that the recovery is sustained.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Risk
  • Recovery
  • Inflation

• I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Responsibility
  • Deserve
  • Historical

• God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small – minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Religion
  • Idea

• I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wish
  • Died

• Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wants
  • Swallow
  • Fruitcake