Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Action
  • Emotional
  • Turn

• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Night
  • Best
  • Ideas

• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Government
  • Human
  • Act

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Special

• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Down

• My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Name
  • Marshall

• America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Beach
  • Now

• The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • She
  • Stop
  • Attention

• Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Time
  • Relationship

• All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Best
  • Try

• I'm not really a pianist.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Really
  • Pianist

• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Place
  • Matters

• Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Amazing
  • Dancer
  • Maddie Ziegler

• I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Funny
  • Cool
  • Violence

• The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • House
  • Problem
  • Driving

• The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Regard
  • Feminists
  • Sexes

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Yield