Quotes with oscar

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  • Bernadette Peters 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.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Levant Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Oscar Wilde Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • 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 first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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