Oscar Wilde Quotes
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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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
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
Yair Lapid
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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
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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
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
Daniel Dennett
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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
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
Larry Hovis
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner
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If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
Charles Dickens
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If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.
Thomas Hobbes
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My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
Oscar Wilde
