Oscar Dleon Quotes

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. ~ Jim Coleman

I have grown sick of shadows. You are more to me than all art can ever be. ~ Oscar Wilde

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. ~ Oscar Levant

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. ~ Oscar Wilde

Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message. ~ Debasish Mridha

Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps. ~ Oscar Wilde

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

A lang, lang time ago ... " MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent's low groan, "there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills ... lost in endless slumber ... "
"God, I envy him," St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes. ~ Lisa Kleypas

To be popular one must be a mediocrity. ~ Oscar Wilde

The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone. In the case of the novel and the drama, arts in which the public do take an interest, the result of the exercise of popular authority has been absolutely ridiculous. No country produces such badly-written fiction, such tedious, common work in the novel form, such silly, vulgar plays as England. It must necessarily be so. The popular standard is of such a character that no artist can get to it. It is at once too easy and too difficult to be a popular novelist. It is too easy, because the requirements of the public as far as plot, style, psychology, treatment of life, and treatment of literature are concerned are within the reach of the very meanest capacity and the most uncultivated mind. It is too difficult, because to meet such requirements the artist would have to do violence to his temperament, would have to write not for the artistic joy of writing, but for the amusement of half-educated people, and so would have to suppress his individualism, forget his culture, annihilate his style, and surrender everything that is valuable in him. ~ Oscar Wilde

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ~ Oscar Wilde

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. ~ Oscar Wilde

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him. ~ Oscar Levant

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

And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them. ~ Oscar Wilde

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]"
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! ~ Oscar Wilde

And I said to the priest, "Where is the god?"

'And he answered me: "There is no god but this mirror that thou seest, for this is the Mirror of Wisdom. And it reflecteth all things that are in heaven and on earth, save only the face of him who looketh into it. This it reflecteth not, so that he who looketh into it may be wise. Many other mirrors are there, but they are mirrors of Opinion. This only is the Mirror of Wisdom. And they who possess this mirror know everything, nor is there anything hidden from them. And they who possess it not have not Wisdom. Therefore is it the god, and we worship it." And I looked into the mirror, and it was even as I he had said to me. ~ Oscar Wilde

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. ~ Oscar Wilde

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate. ~ Oscar Wilde

All criticism is a form of autobiography ~ Oscar Wilde

The truth is never pure and rarely simple. ~ Oscar Wilde

There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things. ~ Oscar Wilde

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.
I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.
Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?
I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. ~ Oscar Wilde

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes. ~ Oscar Wilde

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80! ~ Barney Kessel

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. ~ Oscar Wilde

Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form. ~ Peter Travers

Don't just wish and dream - take action to make it happen. ~ Debasish Mridha

Comfort zone has the most comfortable bed in life where dreams become alive in your mind but never become a reality because you never get up from bed to make it happen. ~ Oscar Bimpong

Prism! Where is that baby? ~ Oscar Wilde

It is personalities, not principles, that move the age ~ Oscar Wilde

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it. ~ Oscar Wilde

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love. ~ Oscar Niemeyer

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write. ~ Oscar Wilde

The worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, ~ Oscar Wilde

Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind. ~ Debasish Mridha