Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.' — Sarah Bernhardt
Reading the very best writersâ€”let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyâ€”is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
'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
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
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
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
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
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest
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
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
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. — Elizabeth Banks
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
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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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