Oscar Wilde Quotes

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

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• Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • World
  • Art
  • Doing

• Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Life
  • Work
  • Movie

• My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Childhood

• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.

  

  Bart Starr
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Discrimination

• In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Men
  • America

• I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

  

  Nell Carter
  • Happy
  • Forgiveness

• The opportunity ahead of us in terms of transforming how we design and build, how we manufacture, is even greater than some of the product innovation that we're going to bring to the table.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Opportunity
  • Design
  • Innovation

• I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Why
  • Nice

• Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. It's a tough class, which makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. It's a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win!

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Great
  • Music
  • Energy

• The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Sales

• Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Law

• You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Work

• The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.

  

  John D'Agata
  • Why
  • History
  • Text

• Only the shallow know themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Know
  • Only
  • Themselves

• Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Hard

• I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

  

  Sharon Gless
  • Men
  • Women
  • Shallow

• Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.

  

  Chiune Sugihara
  • Bird
  • Refuge
  • Hunters

• Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Problem
  • Project
  • Ruptures

• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Refuge
  • Shallow
  • Seriousness