Oscar Wilde Quotes

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Oscar Wilde

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• Follow the yellow brick road.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Road
  • Follow
  • Yellow

• I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Gym
  • Diet
  • Vegetarian

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Art
  • Always

• Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Excitement
  • Intensity

• But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
  • You
  • Doing

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Government
  • Enough

• It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Important
  • Future
  • Failure

• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Last

• I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Think
  • Way
  • Alone

• I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Communication
  • Either

• When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Stand
  • Street

• I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Family
  • Success
  • Like

• I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Easy

• Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

  

  Will Durant
  • Truth
  • Custom
  • Precedent

• Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery

• Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • World
  • Hope
  • Peace

• Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Flowers
  • Let
  • Exceed