Wilde Quotes

47 Wilde quotes by 40 unique authors

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.' — Sarah Bernhardt
It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and a bunch of… — Lena Dunham
The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also… — Rupert Everett
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
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of… — Brander Matthews
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be… — Marisa Tomei
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Unknown Author
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life… — Stephen Fry
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
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. — Robert Herrick
I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with… — Megan Fox

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