Oscar Wilde Gutter Quotes & Sayings

One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength. — Harold Bloom

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. — Albert Ellis

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. — Booker T. Washington

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose. — Marlo Morgan

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control. — Ayad Akhtar

Internet of Things is a vision where every object in the world has the potential to connect to the Internet and provide their data so as to derive actionable insights on its own or through other connected objects — Naveen Balani

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game. — Sanaa Lathan

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. — Chelsea Clinton

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter. — Vann Chow

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country. — Tyler Cowen

Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own room after being away a long time with strangers.
It was where she belonged. — L.J.Smith

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. — Joost Meerloo

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

In the square below,' said the Happy Prince, 'there stands a little match-girl. She has let her matches fall in the gutter, and they are all spoiled. Her father will beat her if she does not bring home some money, and she is crying. She has no shoes or stockings, and her little head is bare. Pluck out my other eye, and give it to her, and her father will not beat her.'

'I will stay with you one night longer,' said the Swallow, 'but I cannot pluck out your eye. You would be quite blind then.'

'Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'do as I command you.'

So he plucked out the Prince's other eye, and darted down with it. He swooped past the match-girl, and slipped the jewel into the palm of her hand. 'What a lovely bit of glass,' cried the little girl; and she ran home, laughing.

Then the Swallow came back to the Prince. 'You are blind now,' he said, 'so I will stay with you always. — Oscar Wilde

I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You have an awareness of it because you know how much grief it's caused. — Jamie Dornan

You're joking." "No, actually I'm not," my boss said and slapped the folder into my hands. "You leave tomorrow morning and I don't want to see your hairy ass till this is solved." I looked wildly around her office for something to lob at her head. It occurred to me that might not be the best of ideas, but desperate times led to stupid measures. She could not do this to me. I'd worked too hard and I wasn't going back. Ever. "First of all, my ass is not hairy except on a full moon and you're smoking crack if you think I'm going back to Georgia." Angela crossed her arms over her ample chest and narrowed her eyes at me. "Am I your boss?" she asked. "Is this a trick question? — Robyn Peterman

I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!" — Philip Morrison