Top 100 All Oscar Quotes
#1. 'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
Michael Moore
#2. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.
Johan Oscar Smith
#3. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
Vann Chow
#4. The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
#5. I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.
Oscar Isaac
#6. Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
#7. The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend.
Oscar Wilde
#8. The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
#9. As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
Jim Coleman
#10. Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious
all right, not an icon, let him be our oriflamme.
Lara Biyuts
#11. I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
Oscar Pistorius
#12. We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,
And all the live World's throbbing heart shall be
Once with our heart
Oscar Wilde
#14. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde
#15. How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
Oscar Wilde
#16. I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
Oscar Robertson
#17. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde
#18. What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Oscar Wilde
#19. I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.
Oscar Wilde
#20. Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
#21. First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.
Oscar Peterson
#22. You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde
#23. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Something rose in Oscar's chest, like a flower blossoming all at once. It grew until it filled him and threatened to spill over everywhere. The words [he] spoke touched a longing so deep Oscar hadn't even known it was there.
Anne Ursu
#25. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
#26. Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
Oscar Robertson
#27. You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
Oscar Robertson
#28. Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Oscar Wilde
#30. You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Oscar Wilde
#31. Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
Oscar Wilde
#32. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
#33. In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
Oscar Wilde
#34. The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
#35. The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation
Oscar Wilde
#36. One sometime feels that it is only with a front of brass and a lip of scorn that one can get through the day at all.
Oscar Wilde
#37. We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
Oscar Wilde
#38. Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up to go to the Oscars to hear Sylvester Stallone, let no one get this twisted. The academy can't pay for a better moment than this: this is the Oscar's original darling.
Bun B.
#40. When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#41. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
Oscar Wilde
#42. But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
Ellen DeGeneres
#43. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
#44. Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
Oscar Wilde
#45. January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
Michael Caine
#46. You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound of music. It has not marred you.
Oscar Wilde
#47. History only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
Janet Fitch
#48. Were there no law there'd be no law-breakers, So all men would be virtuous.
Oscar Wilde
#49. I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.
Ice Cube
#50. I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists
Oscar Wilde
#51. I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.
Oscar Levant
#52. It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Oscar Wilde
#53. I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
Oscar Wilde
#54. Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
Oscar Wilde
#55. as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century
Oscar Wilde
#56. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde
#57. At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,
At seven all was still,
But the sough and swing of a mighty wing
The prison seemed to fill,
For the Lord of Death with icy breath
Had entered in to kill.
Oscar Wilde
#58. The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
#59. How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
Oscar Wilde
#60. If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
Oscar Wilde
#61. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
#62. LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.
Oscar Wilde
#63. She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my garden there is no red rose.
Oscar Wilde
#64. Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
Oscar Wilde
#65. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
#66. It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
Jerry Della Femina
#68. When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349
Oscar Wilde
#69. All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
Whoopi Goldberg
#70. What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
Oscar Wilde
#71. If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Oscar Hijuelos
#72. The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Oscar Wilde
#73. My goal is simple - to live simply and to be kind to all.
Debasish Mridha
#74. If they didn't have an Oscar for people to shoot for, all they'd do is be making 'Dumb And Dumber' again and again.
Robert Osborne
#75. God and other artists are always a little obscure ...
Oscar Wilde
#76. Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Oscar Wilde
#77. She told me of your two chief faults, your vanity, and your being, as she termed it, "all wrong about money". I have a distinct recollection of how I laughed. I had no idea that the first would bring me to prison, and the second to bankruptcy.
Oscar Wilde
#78. To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.
Debasish Mridha
#79. All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment.
Oscar Wilde
#80. Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Oscar Wilde
#81. And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898
Oscar Wilde
#82. The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.
Oscar Wilde
#83. I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
Oscar Wilde
#84. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
Oscar Peterson
#85. Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose.
DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.
Oscar Wilde
#86. She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
Oscar Wilde
#87. Miracles can only happen when you expect miracles with all of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#88. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
Oscar Wilde
#89. paused for a moment, and a wild feeling of pity came over him. After all, what right had he to pry into the life of Dorian Gray? If he had done a tithe of what was rumoured about him, how much he must have suffered! Then he straightened himself up, and walked over to the fire-place, and stood there,
Oscar Wilde
#90. Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
Oscar Pistorius
#91. My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions.
Harold Bloom
#92. You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
Oscar Robertson
#93. There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde
#94. All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
Oscar Wilde
#95. It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
#96. The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.
Marco Tempest
#97. Oscar Peterson is my favorite all-around pianist. There are pianists I like because of one thing and pianists I like because of another. But overall, I like Oscar Peterson best.
Carmen McRae
#98. I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Oscar Wilde
#99. It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
Oscar Wilde
#100. On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar ... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.
Bill Cosby
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