A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
- One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
- Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Best Quotes
- By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
- In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
- The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
- Don't waste your time trying to fit in because at the end of the day there's nothing beautiful about being someone else. Always remember that one day someone is going to notice the beauty of being You.
- When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
- I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
- Bravery never goes out of fashion.
- I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
- If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.