Oscar Quotes

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

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

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

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

Inteligence lives longer than beauty.

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

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.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

It is perfectly monstrous, ' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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.

He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.