I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
- Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Best Quotes
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
- Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
- I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.