Oscar Wilde Quotes

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Oscar Wilde

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• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Fear
  • Alone

• You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Book
  • Question
  • Chance

• I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Christianity
  • Out
  • Did

• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Losing

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Body

• I want to serve the people.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Want
  • Serve

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opinion
  • Matters
  • Insane

• That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Football

• I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Alone
  • Feel

• Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Film
  • Horror

• Why have one chandelier when you can have two?

  

  Candice Olson
  • Why
  • You
  • Two

• I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Like
  • Politics

• Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Mind
  • Attention

• The first part of this statement is quoted without attribution as early as 1897, and is widely attributed to Irving separately as well as in this joined form, but in research for Wikiquote, no original source has yet been found.

  

  Washington Irving

• Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith are hall-of-famers. When they hit the red carpet, they know exactly what they're going to do, how they're going to do it. Damn, they're good.

  

  Kevin Frazier
  • Good
  • Red

• Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

  

  Charlton Heston
  • Political

• The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Beginning

• Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of liberation that has throughout history risen in protest against the totalitarian and anti-human movements of various kinds, such as communism and nazism. It is therefore natural that the Progress Party with its liberal base once again stands first in the line and takes up the fight when a new fascist ideology as Islamism is spreading throughout the world.

  

  Carl I. Hagen
  • World
  • Party
  • Kind

• A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Suicide
  • Depressing
  • Spectacle