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Oscar Wilde Quotes

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: irish
Birth: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Topics

Good Intelligence Man Friends Choose

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

John Conyers

Ideas Seriously Hard Right Take Far

My best piece of style advice is to keep your wardrobe small and love everything in it.

Maye Musk

Love Style Best Small Advice Keep

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

Success Yourself Mind House First

Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.

John T. Chambers

Challenge Focus Internet Security Go

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

Sterling K. Brown

Growing Up Los Angeles Growing Now

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

Sonia Sotomayor

Me Latina Forever

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

Dick Cavett

Judge Obesity Wonderful Screen Show

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Dree Hemingway

Sea Man Stubborn Remember Old Man

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

Anna Torv

Know Fiction Anything Only Read

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on.

Wole Soyinka

Think Seeing Play Write Air Stage

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

Man Action Test Lies Any

I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field trip from Riverside, Calif. to Los Angeles, where we were taken to the L.A. Zoo as well as the Natural History Museum.

Susan Straight

Future History School Husband Museum