Oscar Wilde Quotes

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I've never tried to be something I'm not.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Something
  • Tried

• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Couple

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Cause
  • Effect

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Me
  • Touch

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Good
  • Design

• As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Just

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • She
  • Mother
  • Responsibility

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dark

• Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Reality
  • Grace

• It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Violence

• I wanted to use an urban setting with a small-town feel for a story that took a character through her childhood into her adulthood, with a background in arson investigation, ... I chose Baltimore and its delightful Little Italy section and was able to depict that neighborhood feel, the family ties, and I hope a good story about why choices made define who we are and who we become.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Story
  • Urban
  • Small Town

• The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Mean
  • Environment

• If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

  

  Michael Patrick King
  • Building
  • Minutes
  • Having

• Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Cat
  • Blind
  • Puppy

• Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

  

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • Principles
  • Property
  • Ought

• My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Duty
  • Gentleman
  • Pleasures