Oscar Wilde Quotes

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Oscar Wilde

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • City
  • Always
  • New York

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Life
  • Player
  • Childhood

• Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Couple
  • Thing
  • Roles

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Impossible

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Future
  • Success

• Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Good
  • Small

• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• If they can look past the fact that I happen to wear mascara on stage - which, by the way, is a ridiculous thing that people have a stigma about - then we promise a good rock show.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Good
  • Past

• The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Know