Oscar Wilde Quotes

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Oscar Wilde

• Nature
• Extraordinary
• Disposition
• Sweetness
• Gentleness

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• Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

  

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• Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.

  

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• Im not your biggest girly girl.

  

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• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

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• I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

  

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• I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

  

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

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  • Good
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• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

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• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

  

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• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Extraordinary
  • Disposition