Oscar Wilde Quotes

We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

Oscar Wilde

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• The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Weather

• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Problems

• I like pushing boundaries.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Boundaries
  • Pushing

• Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Different
  • Really
  • Sarcastic

• Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Risk
  • Credit
  • Investment

• False modesty is better than none.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • False
  • Modesty
  • None

• It's always my situation. It's always, I've got to be somewhere for one or two years, they re-evaluate you from here and there and then go from there.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Situation
  • Reevaluate

• The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Faces

• Who runs the world? Girls.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Girl
  • Running

• I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reading
  • Write
  • Books

• Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they're worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, 'What if my girls don't wear hats?' But at 13 months old, they could say 'hat.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Time
  • Live
  • Kids

• Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Party

• Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Good
  • Power

• It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Cold

• Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Woman
  • Sex
  • Vipers

• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Sometimes

• Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Politics
  • Understood
  • Corruptions

• Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

  

  Walter Sickert
  • Misunderstood
  • Immense
  • Fated

• I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • School
  • Together
  • Wish

• We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understood
  • Ourselves
  • Misunderstood