Oscar Mendoza Quotes

He had lived his life as a good father but now Oscar Mendoza saw again his life as a boy. A daughter was a battle between fathers and boys in which the fathers fought valiantly and always lost. He knew that one by one each of his daughter would be lost, either honorably in the ceremony of marriage or, realistically, in a car pointed out towards the ocean well after dark. In his day, Oscar himself had made too many girls forget their better instincts and fine training by biting them with tender persistence at the base of their skull, just where the hairline grew in downy wisps. Girls were like kittens in this way, if you got them right at the nape of their neck, they went easily limp. Then he would whisper his suggestions, all the things they might do together, the wonderful dark explorations for which he was to be their guide. His voice traveled like a drug dripped down the spiraling canals of their ears until they had forgotten everything, until they had forgotten their own names, until they turned and offered themselves up to him, their bodies sweet and soft as marzipan. ~ Ann Patchett

If you hurt, expect to feel the pain. ~ Debasish Mridha

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ~ Oscar Wilde

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.
American novels, answered Lord Henry. ~ Oscar Wilde

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. ~ Oscar Wilde

For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream. ~ Giles Matthey

Conscience makes egotists of us all. ~ Oscar Wilde

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

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead ~ Oscar Wilde

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~ Oscar Levant

Strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored. ~ Oscar Wilde

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. ~ Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as has been his career, it has been full of promise for the future. The son of highly intellectual parents, he has had an exceptional education, has travelled much in wild and remote, through classic lands, and in the course of these journeys has learnt to appreciate the beauties of the old authors, in whose works whilst at college he attained exceptional proficiency. But his naturally enthusiastic temperament teaches him to hope for better in the future than has been achieved in the past, and to see how vast will be the influence of Art and Literature on the coming democracy of Intellect, when education and culture shall have taught men to pride themselves on what they have done, and not alone on the deeds of their ancestors. ~ Walter Hamilton

Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share. ~ Oscar Wilde

California is an Italy without its art. ~ Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured. ~ Oscar Wilde

I like to share, because if I do not share, I'll do exactly the same thing, but unfortunately alone. ~ Oscar P M Lopes

They say that love hath a bitter taste.... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth. ~ Oscar Wilde

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences. ~ Oscar Wilde

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own. ~ Oscar Wilde

chairs. We are practising for an English Academy of Letters." Lord ~ Oscar Wilde

We look to the archaeologist for the materials, to the artist for the method. ~ Oscar Wilde

Ballet is the fairies baseball. ~ Oscar Levant

For all men kill the thing they love ~ Oscar Wilde

No man came across two ideal things. Few come across one. ~ Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing. ~ Oscar Wilde

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. ~ Oscar Wilde

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. ~ Oscar Wilde

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. ~ Oscar Niemeyer

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns. ~ Oscar Hammerstein II

The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted. ~ Oscar A. Romero

I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ~ Oscar Wilde

For the same reason people watch action movies or game shows, I guess. Mindless entertainment. Not everything has to be Shakespeare, you know. Or Oscar Wilde. It's fun. Like... gilded porn. ~ Summer Olsen

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it. ~ Oscar Torre

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. ~ Deniz Gamze Erguven

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine. ~ Oscar Wilde

What a curious shape you are! May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of an accident?" "It ~ Oscar Wilde

For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. ~ Oscar Isaac

Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions. ~ Debasish Mridha

Irony is wasted on the stupid ~ Oscar Wilde

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. ~ Junot Diaz

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~ Oscar Wilde

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ~ Oscar Wilde

What fire does not destroy, it hardens ~ Oscar Wilde

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living. ~ Oscar De La Renta

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde

If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person. ~ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. ~ Oscar Wilde

Give me an enthusiastic, purpose-oriented person and I will give a successful future leader. ~ Debasish Mridha