Oscar Wilde Quotes

Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.

Oscar Wilde

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• You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Emotions
  • Work Hard

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Hands
  • Smile
  • Profound

• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Reasons

• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Think
  • Maturity

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Way
  • Know
  • Christian

• It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Rich
  • Lose

• I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Character
  • Action
  • Train

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• 'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Hurt

• I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Humor
  • Characters
  • Intimacy

• The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Motivational

• Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.

  

  Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
  • Experience
  • History
  • Mankind

• Courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.

  

  Elizabeth Samet
  • Humanity
  • Courage
  • Silence

• My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Parent
  • Security
  • Given

• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Take
  • Seriously

• If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Passion
  • Fire
  • Jobs

• Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Given
  • Excuse
  • Leading