Oscar Wilde Quotes
31 quotes by 26 authors
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Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
— Harold Bloom
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'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a…
— Russell Crowe
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But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They…
— Tucker Max
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but…
— Emma Goldman
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What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
— Max Beerbohm
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The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.
— Marco Tempest
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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you…
— Stephen Fry
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Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case…
— Diana Trilling
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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
— Frederic Raphael
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I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.
— Elizabeth Banks
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at…
— Damian Lewis
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Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's…
— John Lydon
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
— Oscar Wilde
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As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the…
— George Plimpton
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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?…
— Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills…
— Janet Fitch
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I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast…
— Mary Pickford
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