Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.


Gabriella Wilde

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
OSCAR WILDE
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so...
OSCAR WILDE
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should g...
OSCAR WILDE
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our ...
OSCAR WILDE
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
OSCAR WILDE
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all...
OSCAR WILDE
When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.
OLIVIA WILDE
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should b...
OLIVIA WILDE
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
OSCAR WILDE
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everythi...
OSCAR WILDE
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
OSCAR WILDE
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby ...
OSCAR WILDE
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
OSCAR WILDE
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
OSCAR WILDE
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. 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