Oscar Wilde Quotes

But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) "It is my name," Athos said calmly. "But you said your name was d'Artagnan." "I?" "Yes, you." "That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.

I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce." "It’s a clever lettuce, then." "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.

And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.

Sometimes people come to my standup show, and they think they're going to see Doug Wilson. Or they see me on the street, and they call me Doug Wilson.

I am the Thinkerman, not Tinkerman!

People see me as something I'm not.

People confuse me with Gateway.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

"Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.