Peter Finch
Related G.K. CHESTERTON OSCAR WILDE JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER E.M. FORSTER JOHN LYDON It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which alway... DAMIAN LEWIS CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY OSCAR WILDE MARY ANN SHAFFER OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE FERNANDO PESSOA OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious--all right, not an ic... LARA BIYUTS SARAH BERNHARDT ORHAN PAMUK J.J. MCAVOY OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars. GYLES BRANDRETH OSCAR WILDE I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can... GYLES BRANDRETH I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's -... DENIS O'HARE FREDERIC RAPHAEL OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE SARAH BERNHARDT So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpl... JOHN O'HARA OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970... ANDREW WILSON OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE [On Oscar Wilde:] DOROTHY PARKER [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will... FRANK HARRIS SEBASTIAN HORSLEY I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar ... HOZIER ROBYN SCHNEIDER WHIT STILLMAN LAUREN OLIVER At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an... MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Ik wilde haar weer horen lachen. Sterker nog: ik wilde de lach uit haar tevoorschijn toveren, ik wil... DEON MEYER MARISA TOMEI OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their pro... ROBBIE ROSS OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE STEPHEN FRY XAVIER DOLAN Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do t... AL LEWIS LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we ... JONATHAN DIMBLEBY OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE GEORGE BERNARD SHAW OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his or... MICHAEL LEVENSON ROBERT HERRICK [You can also expect fewer titillating twists, like the girl-girl kiss (and subsequent romance) betw... JOSH SCHWARTZ CLIVE BARNES OSCAR WILDE There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any othe... KATE ADIE ROBERT ANTON WILSON OSCAR WILDE Are we to deny our daughters the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck or Shakespear... DIANE DAVIES When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit... CHARLES S. RICKETTS There was no other reason to come back, just basketball. I wanted to win and have fun at the same ti... SHAY DORON The Japanese game market at the moment is all about the handhelds, and because the other two console... HIROSHI KAMIDE OSCAR WILDE PETER JACKSON My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated... ANTON DU BEKE The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde. AMY SCHUMER It's not about the best performances and the best films of the year. No Oscar voter believes that an... TOM O'NEIL KENNETH TYNAN I think it's going to be Reese. Again, if somebody that movie was about died in the last year or so,... HAL SPARKS JOHN GEDDES OSCAR WILDE I don't think he's comfortable doing that. At the time, we were looking for a fifth starter and he'd... BOB MELVIN PETER JACKSON When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway s... BETH GRANT C.S. LEWIS OSCAR WILDE
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Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde ... 
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde 
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. 
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. 
Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I... 
I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living. 
Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wil... 
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde. 
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. 
Hablar es tener demasiada consideración por los demás. Por la boca mueren los peces y Oscar Wilde. 
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn' 
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is ... 
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ... 
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America an... 
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.&#... 
[On Oscar Wilde:]
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in f... 
Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist,... 
Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... 
Who the hell calls at two in the morning?"
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were n... 
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. I... 
For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn... 
Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years. 
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. 
A careless shoe string, in whose tie
I see a wilde civility. 
Dialogue more tame than Wilde. 
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery wa... 
To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'L... 
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan,... 
...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that... 
To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the &#... 
Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other vo... 
Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! 
You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of ... 
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... 
My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK... 
If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You ... 
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. 
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh. 
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. 
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin... 
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive... 
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce... 
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa... 
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join... 
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. 
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. 
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. 
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w... 
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. 
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k... 
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. 
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi... 
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. 
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana... 
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go... 
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job. 
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t... 
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo. 
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati... 
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho... 
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w... 
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs... 
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ... 
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep... 
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ... 
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin... 
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir... 
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts.... 
It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th... 
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t... 
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot. 
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe... 
Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love. 
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow... 
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. 
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ... 
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,... 
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine... 