Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Oscar Wilde

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Kami Garcia

Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

Kanye West

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

June Carter Cash

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.

Julie Walters

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

Maria Shriver

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Paul Theroux

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Krugman

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

Paul Krugman

Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.

Paul Dickson

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Paul Dickson

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Patrick Swayze

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Patrick Ewing

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

Patrick Chan

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Madame de Stael

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

Harlan Ellison

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Gustav Mahler

It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.

Gustav Mahler

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustave Flaubert

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Gordon Ramsay

I grew up in a funny way.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.