Oscar Wilde Quotes

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Oscar Wilde

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

OthersAfraidUpThingsAwayThrow

'Killing Pablo' to me - as much as I love 'The Grey''s script - 'Killing Pablo' to me is the best thing I've ever written.

Joe Carnahan

LoveBestMeMuchEverThing

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

John Malkovich

YourselfYouSeeImagineAbsurdHow

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

Anna Chlumsky

BrotherBigDealLikeBig Deal

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

John Waters

PeopleMeLaughEnoughEarlyDown

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

Steven Price

MusicAmazingMeDoorWorldMeaning

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Robert Frost

BaseballToughMomentsThingsLike

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Martine McCutcheon

WomanManGeniusQuestionsYouAsk

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

Clayton M. Christensen

InnovationMoneyWillSuccessfulMay

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.

Pixie Lott

LovePeopleMeGoThailandWould

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

Leila Slimani

PeopleEvilBornWithinUsAlthough

I'm one of those people where, if I get a piece of advice from someone I look up to and respect, I'll really listen to it.

Kelly Marie Tran

RespectPeopleAdviceSomeoneLook

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