Oscar Wilde Quotes

Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.

Oscar Wilde

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• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Control
  • Me

• You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Great
  • Moment
  • Loss

• I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Motherhood

• In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character's face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can't do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you can't get anywhere else because the audience is right there.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Live
  • Character
  • Giving

• When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Profound

• I'm a Scorpio. I have different mood swings.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Different
  • Mood

• I used to think interacting with people in the audience, touching people in the crowd, was a total ego-based thing. I never realized how fulfilling it would be. It's more about being on the receiving end - it's people giving. That's a powerful realization.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • People
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• I'm not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I'm embarrassed by a lot of advertising.

  

  David Droga

• I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World

• 'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'

  

  Katie Stevens
  • People
  • She
  • American

• I don't know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.

  

  Beth Moore

• Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • God
  • Business
  • Church

• Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Future
  • Today
  • Challenge

• The waiter just flashed me something that said, "Chew bubblegum." Every morning, when I was about to go to the Oprah competition, my friend used to say this line in a video game to me: "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum." There's a strict policy that you can't encourage anyone on a reality show, that would give them an edge.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Time
  • Game
  • Reality

• Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Change
  • Decisions

• The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Style
  • Management
  • Transformation

• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

  

  Norman L. Eisen
  • Power
  • Rise
  • Processes

• We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Thinking
  • Affair
  • Immortal

• Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Love
  • Worth

• To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Teacher
  • Learner
  • Right Sense

• Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Service
  • Philosophy
  • Impossible

• Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Triumph
  • Immortal
  • Throne