Oscar Wilde Quotes

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Oscar Wilde

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• Artificial

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• I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Try
  • Word
  • Saying

• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
  • Feel
  • Pressure

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

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Being

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Real
  • Business
  • Day

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• 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
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Rather
  • Denmark

• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Diet

• I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• 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
  • Attitude

• 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
  • Earth

• I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Myself
  • Too Much
  • Fat

• 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
  • Men
  • History

• Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Power
  • Man
  • Stand

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Science
  • Trusting
  • Prudence

• I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

  

  Dinah Sheridan

• It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Together
  • True

• Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

  

  Plato
  • Pain
  • Reason
  • Pleasure

• Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pleasure
  • Champagne
  • Artificial