Quote by Oscar Wilde (about Children & Childhood, Parents)

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Children & Childhood Parents

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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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Thinking Patience & Endurance

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Dreaming Ambition

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Temptation

Be yourself! Everyone else is already taken.

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Character Self-Confidence Aries ♈

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost

Death

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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

Oscar Wilde

Laughing & Smile Truth Criticism

To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development.

Oscar Wilde

Experience

Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.

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Love Men & Women

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Learning Education

Life is far too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

Life

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, irish author)

Life

I have the simplest tastes: I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

Ambition

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Temptation

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Oscar Wilde

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

Paris

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

Russia Paris

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

Paris Sydney

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art Paris

Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Paris

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

Charles Dickens

London

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

London

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard - Mr. Timothy

London

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

London Orlando

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

John Cleese

London

Even a short stay in Dublin is like walking into literary history, accompanied by music.

Dublin

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

Dublin

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

Conor McGregor

Dublin

When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.

James Joyce

Dublin

Dublin is one of my favourite cities. It's an absolutely amazing place.

Tom Holland

Dublin

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and by far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Laughing & Smile Friendship

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Johnny Depp

Parents Birth Father & Daughter

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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