Quote by Oscar Wilde
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the probl

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with ones vinegar. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. – Oscar Wilde

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Love
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Cooking, Culinary
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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. – William Shakespeare

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. – Thomas Wolfe

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The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. – G.K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”

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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. – Laura Dern

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movies

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

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