Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
-
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
-
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
-
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
-
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
-
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
-
I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
-
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
-
We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
-
In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
-
I think I'm a good judge of character.
-
My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
-
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
-
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
-
All my life I have fought corruption.
-
The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
-
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
-
I'm a darned good listener.
-
Usher is so innovative - he's a great performer, a great entertainer.
-
Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
-
In a world of oversharing, we don't want to be unknown or unseen. We don't want to be left out.
-
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
-
I'm trying to change how women think about themselves.
-
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
