Oscar Wilde Quotes

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Oscar Wilde

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• Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

  

  Nancy Duarte
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  • Own
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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • High
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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Change
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• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Never
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• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Party
  • Investment

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Business
  • Think

• Every day when I wake up, I check Instagram.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up

• The problem we have in the WTA circuit is that the girls do not have a good relationship because we play against each other, and it's a sport.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Good
  • Relationship

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

  

  James Packer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.

  

  Derek Blasberg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Art
  • Interest