Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
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  • Courage
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• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
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• I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Dad
  • Doing
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• Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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  • September
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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • Everything
  • Out
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• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Office
  • Box

• I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.

  

  Becky G
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Problem

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
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• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Best
  • Players

• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Friend
  • Lonely
  • Meeting

• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Leave

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Nature

• Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Gift
  • Everyone
  • Bread

• Love is a really scary thing and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Truth

• The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Consciousness