Oscar Wilde Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I crave attention and adventure.
-
Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
-
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
-
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
-
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
-
The premium valuation is warranted in our view given the consistently high level of execution, the expansion into other revenue-driving channels such as entertainment and food ... and the improvement in both U.S. and international profitability.
-
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
-
How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.
-
I think that these data present real concerns about how can we use this class in the future. And it certainly says it makes little sense to make it an important part of drug stockpiles for pandemic response.
-
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
-
You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?
-
Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.
-
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
-
When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.
-
I'm a really lucky guy, I have a good wardrobe of suits and things, and I have a wife that gives me a direction if I'm doing something wrong. I live a great life and I do what I love, which is wonderful.
-
No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
-
No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
-
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
-
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.
-
I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people.
-
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
