5,159 Quotes About Mean

  • Author Oprah Winfrey
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    I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.

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  • Author Orson Welles
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    I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

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  • Author Orson Welles
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    The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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  • Author Owen Wister
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    It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

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