Wilde Quotes

47 quotes by 41 authors

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body.… — Stephen Fry
I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was… — Ashley Greene
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
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
Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde
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
Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend… — Agatha Christie
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It… — Gayle Forman
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. — E. M. Forster
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
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing. — Oscar Wilde
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of… — David Levithan
Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years. — Lord Alfred Douglas
The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde. — Amy Schumer
Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy… — Monty Python

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