Top 100 Oscar Quotes
#1. Every thing to be true must become a religion.
Oscar Wilde
#2. The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.
Luise Rainer
#3. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
Oscar Wilde
#4. The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated,
Juanita Moore
#6. Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
#7. I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
Stephen Sondheim
#9. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#10. Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.
Oscar Wilde
#11. London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
Oscar Wilde
#12. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#13. controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day - would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's
Wil Haygood
#14. 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
#15. I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.
Halle Berry
#17. Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
Oscar Pistorius
#18. If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
Oscar Wilde
#19. It's not about what you wear, but about how you live your life
Oscar De La Renta
#20. If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.
Debasish Mridha
#21. I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
Oscar De La Renta
#22. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
#23. To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#24. As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.
Oscar De La Hoya
#25. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
Oscar Levant
#26. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
#27. Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Oscar Wilde
#28. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
Debasish Mridha
#29. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
#30. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#31. Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar Wilde
#32. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
Vann Chow
#33. If music be the food of love, get me a supersized big mac, chips, two apple pies and a large milkshake.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalists. It will give us the peace that springs from understanding.
Oscar Wilde
#35. Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.
Debasish Mridha
#36. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.
Oscar Wilde
#37. Yes, the lad was premature. He was gathering his harvest while it was yet spring.
Oscar Wilde
#38. Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.
Daryl Hannah
#39. She was being nice, and Oscar was always reminding me that most people are fundamentally decent and that it doesn't pay to think badly of them.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
#40. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#41. It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight.
Oscar Wilde
#42. The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
Oscar Wilde
#43. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
Oscar Wilde
#44. Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?
Oscar Wilde
#45. O wandering graves! O restless sleep!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey!
Oscar Wilde
#46. Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
Oscar Wilde
#47. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
#48. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
Oscar Wilde
#49. I suppose one must be serious sometimes.
Oscar Wilde
#50. I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.
Denzel Washington
#51. It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
Oscar Wilde
#52. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
Oscar Wilde
#53. We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
Oscar Wilde
#54. The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
Jeff Bridges
#55. The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
#56. The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
#57. Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.
Oscar Wilde
#58. I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
Oscar Robertson
#59. As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere." The question is: where is the line?
Dan Ariely
#60. A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.
Debasish Mridha
#61. 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
#62. The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.
Debasish Mridha
#63. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
#64. I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Oscar Wilde
#65. Beer, the Bible, and the seven deadly virtues have made our England what she is.
Oscar Wilde
#66. When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life.
Debasish Mridha
#67. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. I
Oscar Wilde
#68. Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
Oscar Pistorius
#69. It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#70. People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#71. Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
Oscar Wilde
#72. Even if you are sad, don't forget to sing the song of love.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
Oscar Wilde
#74. The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.
Oscar W. Firkins
#75. Down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.
Oscar Wilde
#76. The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.
Oscar Arias
#77. Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
#78. My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.
Oscar Wilde
#79. Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
Oscar Wilde
#80. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant
#82. If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
#83. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.
Oscar Wilde
#84. The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Oscar Wilde
#85. I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
Oscar Levant
#86. It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Oscar Wilde
#87. You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
Noel Coward
#90. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
Oscar Wilde
#91. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Oscar Wilde
#92. I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
Octavia Spencer
#93. But what if Oscar - "
"Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?"
"I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well."
"Then you shall make for a tasty meal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#94. It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.
Oscar Niemeyer
#95. The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world.
Reggie Lee
#97. 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
#98. Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.
Oscar Wilde
#99. You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
Chris Wedge
#100. The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
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