Oscar Wilde Quotes

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Oscar Wilde

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Scary

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Relationship
  • Value
  • Person

• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • High
  • Alone

• Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Justice

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Cool

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Pain
  • Give
  • Worth

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Together
  • Serious

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movies
  • Actor
  • Image

• People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Mind
  • Running

• You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

  

  James Dyson

• All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Try

• I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Party

• If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

  

  Cindy Gallop
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Coming
  • Seriousness