Oscar Wilde Quotes

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Oscar Wilde

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• I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• All reactionaries are paper tigers.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Paper
  • Tigers

• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Movie
  • Friend
  • Star

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Vote
  • Lazy

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Building

• You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Blow
  • Studio

• I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Now

• We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Man
  • Enjoy
  • Disdain

• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Sin

• Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Childhood
  • Magic
  • Youth

• The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Passion
  • Miracle
  • Gift

• And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Game
  • Sin
  • Shame

• Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Country
  • Violence
  • Drug

• I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Used
  • Grew
  • Delusional

• Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Parent
  • Sin
  • Crime