Oscar Wilde Quotes

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Oscar Wilde

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• The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
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• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
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• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Believe
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• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • God
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• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
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• I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I'd pass out again.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Kid

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective. Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Stop

• The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike?

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • Black

• It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Music
  • Girl

• Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Habit

• You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

  

  Bobby Ray Inman

• I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Good
  • Political
  • Faith

• He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.

  

  Margaret O'Brien
  • Home

• Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Real
  • Soul
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• No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Hurt
  • Emotional

• Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Actions

• The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Music
  • Pleasure
  • Understood

• What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pleasure
  • Repentance
  • Nowadays