#oscar

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#wit #men

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#lgbt #oscar-wilde #men

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lord-illingworth #oscar-wilde #forgiveness

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#feel #gotten #grateful #had #i

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. ↗

— Gyles Brandreth

#oscar-wilde #death

They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#did #done #even #haven #la

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#oscar-wilde #poetry #reading #age

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#audience #career #doubt #films #get

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. ↗

— James Mcneill Whistler

#oscar-wilde #riposte #humor