Oscar Wilde Quotes

The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Oscar Wilde

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Taxes
  • Legal
  • Collecting

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Old

• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Up
  • May
  • Theory

• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Challenge

• Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• Every artist was first an amateur.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Artist
  • First

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Travel

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • School
  • Myself
  • Always

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Cruel

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Find
  • Fight
  • Watch

• Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • America
  • Sticks
  • Empires

• Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

  

  Christine Kane
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn't founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can't lose that in this country. We've got to get it back.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Know
  • Fire