Oscar Wilde Quotes

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SocietyTragedyOutSimplyBore

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

John Montgomery Ward

LiveBaseballCricketGameAmerica

Fish and Wildlife has a significant amount of federal funds for land acquisition, yet it is skimping on management of the lands it already possesses and shortchanging local tax bases.

Stephen Fincher

ManagementFishTaxLandWildlife

I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

Stefanie Powers

MeFeelPersonWantMakeTrip

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

Steven Johnson

WorkTimeCultureSocietyCriticism

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.

Roger Taylor

RockNeverBecauseSellNewspapers

Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.

Jean Chatzky

ChangeFriendBestSocial MediaLong

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Chris Van Allsburg

PersonalityWayTrySameMundane

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Chuck Klosterman

WalkPeopleWaitStoryThinkEnd

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

LifeBecomeNecessaryRestrictions

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

Susanne Bier

HomeDayMagicGoPointShooting

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

Mark Gatiss

MyselfManGrowingDesireKnowWhy

Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.

Lurlene McDaniel

DieCreateNewNeverOldNeed

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