Oscar Wilde Quotes

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Oscar Wilde

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• I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Movie
  • Friend
  • Star

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Today
  • Golf

• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Sin

• HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • Law
  • Identity

• Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Way
  • Doing
  • Everyone

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • America
  • Amazing
  • New York

• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Business
  • Wish

• I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Unhappy
  • Thirsty

• I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Got
  • Nephews
  • Nieces

• We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Exercise

• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Parents
  • Earth
  • Amazing

• I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Next
  • Pages
  • Typewriter

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Desire
  • Crime
  • Fault

• No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
  • Vulgar