Oscar Wilde Quotes

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

• World
• Stupidity
• Optimism
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• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Simple
  • Be Yourself

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Now

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Rest

• I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Love
  • Truth

• When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Control
  • Successful
  • Unsuccessful

• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Stupidity
  • Optimism