Quotes with oscar-winning

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  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Oscar Wilde True friends stab you in the front.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
    A Woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Levant Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Oscar Wilde Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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