Oscar Wilde Quotes

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

Oscar Wilde

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• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Help
  • Free
  • Education

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Research

• The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Free
  • Source
  • Major

• I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Golf

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Think
  • Happen
  • Fights

• I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Never

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • People
  • Start
  • Situation

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Problem
  • Easy
  • Solution

• The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

  

  Jason Fried
  • World
  • Reality
  • Risk

• I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Government
  • Service
  • Inspiration

• I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • End

• 'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Work
  • Great
  • War

• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  

  Philip Emeagwali
  • School
  • Financial

• In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Fact