Oscar Wilde Quotes

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Oscar Wilde

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
  • Always
  • Never

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Humor
  • Explore

• I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Good
  • Done
  • Comedy

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Care

• Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Rich
  • Choose
  • Ignorant

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Proud

• To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Country
  • America
  • Speak

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Enjoy

• Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • God
  • Long
  • Culture

• People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Nature
  • Child

• Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Health

• Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • Work
  • War
  • Together

• By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Body