#oscar

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit

Sometimes the only difference between life and death is the ability to retain the smallest scrap of hope. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#suddenly-you #death

Marriage is a matter for common sense." "But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?" "No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #marriage

people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gray #inspirational #oscar #wilde #imagination

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

I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#appear #been #competition #goal #i