Ease Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ease Feels Mediocrity Talking
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world! — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical. — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them. — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again,… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. — David Deida Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked about Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, I always answer: 'Neymar is the best,' not just because of his goals but because… — Roberto Carlos Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise. — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and… — John McCain Copy Share
“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
