Oscar Wilde Quotes

The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour.

Oscar Wilde

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• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • You
  • Ask
  • Teammates

• I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Family
  • Want

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Understand
  • Find

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Name

• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Group
  • Mexico

• I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Food
  • Passion

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Look

• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Own
  • Before
  • Brainy

• We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Money
  • Back
  • Well

• Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Family
  • Home
  • Congress

• I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Famous

• Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My mother took my brother and I to a production of 'The Tempest', and it was in this very small - it could have been the basement of a church or a black box. The space was vast, but there were maybe 15 seats in the middle. Ariel came out wearing a nude sparkly thong and spike heels, and the muses had these gossamer see-through gowns on.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • Mother
  • Black
  • Small

• A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

  

  William Kent
  • World
  • Feelings
  • Garden

• The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Black
  • Garden
  • Leaves