Oscar Wilde Quotes
But what world says that I'm wicked? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
Quotes to Explore
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
-
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
-
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
-
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
-
In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
-
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
-
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
-
Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
-
I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
-
We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
-
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
-
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
-
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
-
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
-
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
-
Prince loves his women. It's not impossible that someday he'll be devoted to just one.
-
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
-
My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
-
To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.
-
My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When he first met my mum, he swept her off into this big, social world.
-
But what world says that I'm wicked? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
