Oscar Wilde Quotes

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Oscar Wilde

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• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• Being spontaneous is a blessing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Being
  • Blessing
  • Spontaneous

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Love
  • Sometimes

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Life
  • America
  • Professional

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

  

  Jack Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Finds

• I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • World
  • America
  • High

• Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Long
  • Desire

• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Insult
  • Womanhood
  • Contraceptives

• Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Home

• Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

  

  Eugenie de Guerin
  • People
  • Character
  • Soul

• To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Modern