Oscar Wilde Quotes

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

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• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Finish

• We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Sleep
  • Busy

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• You just can't control your art in the future.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Future
  • Control

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Fortune

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Grandparents
  • Ashamed
  • Slaves

• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Night
  • Cool

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Behavior

• I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

  

  Halima Aden
  • History
  • Think
  • Oppression

• I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Me
  • Information
  • Try

• Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • God
  • Connection
  • Issue

• Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Two
  • Skills

• Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Success

• My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Up
  • Past

• All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Thinking
  • Drinking

• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Born