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Play Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
- I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
- Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
- If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
- The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
- One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or…
- Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy…
- I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare…
- Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when…
- I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I…
- The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they…
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