Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.

Oscar Wilde

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• Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • High
  • Guy

• Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Always
  • Really
  • Pass

• There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Kids
  • Team

• I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Why
  • Movie

• I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Stop
  • Kind
  • Doing

• I'm definitely post-something.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Definitely

• Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

  

  Frederic Bastiat

• The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Great
  • Decision

• Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Men
  • Family
  • Grandpa

• I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.

  

  David Chang
  • Home
  • Food

• You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Opportunity

• I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is; that's what I call an interview. I'm not someone who's like 'Right, you can't ask this, that, this, that, this, that.' It's got to be a real interview. I've literally got nothing to hide.

  

  Katie Price
  • Mind
  • Real

• Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

  

  David Cunliffe
  • Democracy

• The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Mind
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Passion
  • Loves
  • Impression

• For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Passion
  • Loves
  • Impression

• People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it's something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I'm all for that.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.

  

  Boudleaux Bryant
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Healthy
  • Claim
  • Harmonious

• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Impression
  • False
  • Vulgar