Quotes 341 till 360 of 548.
-
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
-
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.
-
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
-
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
-
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
-
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
-
That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
An Ideal Husband -
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
-
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
-
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
-
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
-
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
-
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
-
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
-
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
-
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
-
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
-
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
All oscar famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 18)