Oscar Wilde Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Play Quotes

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.

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"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

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In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.

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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

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We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

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In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

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If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

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The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

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