As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
Oscar Wilde
Related I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lo... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde OSCAR WILDE He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream too. LEWIS CARROLL So I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters with lots of serious people. I have spen... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course! CATHERINE ZETA JONES I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good... GIACOMO CASANOVA I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will nev... JONATHAN CARROLL I am a hypocrite when it comes to being a conformist. My values and beliefs are part of my foundatio... BONNIE ZACKSON KOURY Those guys are my friends. I have a lot of love for them. Every time I see them of course I am going... LENO RIVERA I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my peop... INDIRA GANDHI I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. E.M. FORSTER People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, '... KATIE J. DAVIS My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone... LALAINE In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these thing... NEIL YOUNG I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I ... QANDEEL BALOCH It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things agains... OSCAR WILDE You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never h... CALVIN COOLIDGE While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say ... ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY I've never seen anything so awesome in my whole life. It is absolutely gorgeous. Beyond everybody's ... DAVE TODD My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I ca... JAKE WOOD I do not think that we have done anything wrong. How many people go back and say they were misled af... ELAINE TAYLOR I have a huge disdain for those artists who say that they don't need a prize to have their talent re... CARMEN MIRANDA Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school. DANIEL L. DOCTOROFF If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in my lifes... JOACHIM SAUER Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait... JIM GARRISON I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many wh... WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I... SANHITA BARUAH A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very diff... JA RULE I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You'r... TERRY PRATCHETT I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On ... VIR DAS The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value w... OSCAR WILDE Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is ... OSCAR WILDE When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying... MAHESH BABU You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do some... MELISSA ROSE LAWRENCE I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know w... LISA MARIE PRESLEY Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who... MICHEL FABER I really have no idea why they are all crashing. There are just lots of rolls. There's never a dull ... LIBBY LUDLOW There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and th... ABIGAIL VAN BUREN There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and ... ABIGAIL VAN BUREN I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including win... CHRISTINE LAHTI You know what I'm going to say: Of course, I am. JEFF GUIDINGER My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and peop... JUSTIN HAYWARD I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robins... MIKE HUCKABEE Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd hav... JOSH LANYON A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY There is none other like me. There is none other like her. We are unbelievable, impossible. I fly as... ROSIE GARLAND All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I ... KARL OVE KNAUSGåRD I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought... OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ... OSCAR WILDE It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world OSCAR WILDE A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordina... CHARLES NELSON REILLY I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life ... EDWARD GOREY For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or... PETER FINCH I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of cou... PAULO COELHO Never ever say there is no money in life,but rather say i have not gotten my own share of life's wea... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fas... CARA DELEVINGNE I don't want to sit here and say anything negative about my time there. I think the best thing to sa... JOE BORCHARD My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as t... TOM T. HALL As a public figure, you have to maintain a certain demeanor. We also have responsibility to the publ... GRACE POE What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Golia... KEITH DAVID Of course some people in the Arab world don't agree. They say he was bad before and he stays bad. Bu... DR. MOHAMED KADRY In my whole life of who I am today, there has been a spectacular contribution of everyone who are �... BHAVIK SARKHEDI Of course, I say all the time my personal best is what I am in this for. No matter if I won, it's if... SASHA COHEN I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a w... BARBARA HERSHEY After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too. PATRICIA BRIGGS Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course o... DONQUIXOTE DOFLAMINGO My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heel... EMMA THOMPSON All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a ... HENRI MATISSE I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Mo... EMMA THOMPSON Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who... ETHEL BARRYMORE People who know my problems wonder why I am so happy. They ask, " what's your secret?" I simply say,... JOSIAH.ST.JEAN Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. ... CHETAN BHAGAT There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who... FREDERICK L. COLLINS There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who ... FREDERICK L COLLINS I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn't know it at the time. Maybe I ... JERRY SPINELLI I love love!
And everything about it! It honestly feels like magic, the way you’re emotionally con... HAPPY FBI My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed peopl... PETER ACKROYD I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. OSCAR WILDE No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate ... MATHEW BRADY I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am asto... ALBERT EINSTEIN Never say anything behind a person that you would not say in front of them. J.J. BOWLERS My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but ... OSCAR WILDE The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothin... CHARLES M. SCHWAB Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit. DAVE PETERS When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually ... RIHANNA Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, ... ARLAINA TIBENSKY Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of ... DORIS LESSING Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not? GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant one... CAMILLE CLAUDEL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo... WINSTON CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food. BECKY G Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a w... BARBARA HERSHEY It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,... OSCAR WILDE It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. OSCAR WILDE The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. OSCAR WILDE I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front. OSCAR WILDE Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. OSCAR WILDE It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. 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OSCAR WILDE I like men who have a future and women who have a past OSCAR WILDE There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everythin... OSCAR WILDE Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, t... OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out OSCAR WILDE If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never... OSCAR WILDE Punctuality is the thief of time. OSCAR WILDE If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. OSCAR WILDE ...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the ... OSCAR WILDE Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, an... OSCAR WILDE Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very m... 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When it is looked on a... OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, w... OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. OSCAR WILDE I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is si... OSCAR WILDE To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies OSCAR WILDE I drink to separate my body from my soul. OSCAR WILDE He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his... OSCAR WILDE Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is w... OSCAR WILDE As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon a... OSCAR WILDE Those whom the gods love grow young. OSCAR WILDE In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefi... OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum... OSCAR WILDE Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. OSCAR WILDE There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and he... OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, wo... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are re... OSCAR WILDE To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be r... OSCAR WILDE Nothing succeeds like success. OSCAR WILDE When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. OSCAR WILDE An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. OSCAR WILDE Work is the curse of the drinking class. OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do. OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. OSCAR WILDE Time is waste of money. OSCAR WILDE Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any othe... OSCAR WILDE A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'... OSCAR WILDE All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imi... OSCAR WILDE In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. OSCAR WILDE Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite... OSCAR WILDE No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist. OSCAR WILDE Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice... OSCAR WILDE Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. OSCAR WILDE There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ... OSCAR WILDE When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,... OSCAR WILDE There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the... OSCAR WILDE The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ... OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en... OSCAR WILDE In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom... OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. OSCAR WILDE I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated serious... OSCAR WILDE Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t... OSCAR WILDE Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. OSCAR WILDE Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc... OSCAR WILDE Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you wi... OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING: I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice. MRS. CHEVELEY... OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING: My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ... OSCAR WILDE A poet can survive anything but a misprint. OSCAR WILDE The best way to make children good is to make them happy. OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi... OSCAR WILDE Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo... OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. OSCAR WILDE As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. OSCAR WILDE People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s... OSCAR WILDE The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is... OSCAR WILDE As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc... OSCAR WILDE The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio... OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t... OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau... OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t... OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your... OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love. OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere... OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit... OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent... OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti... OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of... OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that... OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ... OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne... OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is... OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is... OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ... OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness... OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive t... OSCAR WILDE