“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.' — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You! — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do.… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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