Quote by Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. – Oscar Wilde

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Integrity
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. – Oscar Wilde

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Art
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Optimism
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Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. – Edward Dahlberg

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Optimism

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault

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Optimism

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve. – Ring Lardner

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Optimism

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Optimism

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Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. – Ambrose Bierce

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Life doesnt just happen its constructed through the history of power. And thats something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world thats trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here. – Mike Mills

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