Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

Need an original paper?
Top Authors
more authors
Popular Topics
more topics
Home > Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings > Authors > Letter "O" > Oscar Wilde Quotes

Research Database of Quotes

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

QuotationsAuthorsTopicsKeywords

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
O
P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Oscar Wilde Quotes

«A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Control, Emotions, Self-mastery | Keywords: dominate
«The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Happiness, Marriage, Suspicion | Keywords: anything, get a look, grown, happily, has, have a look, life, like, looks, look out on, look up to, married, suspicious, take a look, the world, world
«The final mystery is oneself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Mystery, Self-knowledge, Self awareness | Keywords: final, finals, mystery, oneself
«It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Beauty, Funny, Goodness | Keywords: beautiful, better, ugliest, ugly
«When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Liberty, Revolution, Violence | Keywords: blood, blooded, by hand, comes, dabble, dabbled, dabbling, handing, handing over, hands, hand out, hand to hand, hard, Harder Than You, Hard on, hard up, her, liberty, on hand, On Liberty, out of hand, shake, shake hands, shake the hand, shake up, with
«Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Education, Knowledge, Learning | Keywords: also known as, be, can, canned, Canning, Did you know, is, knowing, nothing, nothings, out of nothing, taught, that, that is, The More You Know, worth
«A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Death, Sacrifice, Truth | Keywords: dies, die out, For, is not, man, manned, mans, necessarily, not, thing, true
«Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Deceit, Romance | Keywords: calls, deceiving, romance, romances, romancing
«I can believe anything provided it is incredible.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Belief, Imagination, witty | Keywords: anything, incredible, provided
«I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: earn, I Want to Live, live, living, livings, To Live, want| Occasions: T-Shirt
Pages: « Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next »
Browse thousands of free essays & term papers as well as free biographies.