Oscar Wilde Quotes

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Quiet

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Company
  • Name

• This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Family
  • Me
  • Welcome

• The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Doing

• The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Write
  • Wind
  • Danger

• Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Happy

• I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

  

  Lisa See
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Wonder

• None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Taken
  • Forever
  • Secrets

• I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Life
  • Smile
  • Worse

• But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Happy
  • Education

• 'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Clear
  • Rhode Islanders
  • Tag Line

• I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Up
  • Place
  • Photography

• The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Wealth
  • Taste
  • Product

• So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Economic

• The companies are no longer the purveyors of good taste. Youtube is.

  

  Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs
  • Taste
  • Companies
  • YouTube

• In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Decisions
  • Public Sentiment

• A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Taste
  • Joys
  • Virtuous