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Quotes About Attention

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.
~ Charles Saatchi
Look at Colby Covington. The guy can fight, and the guy can talk. To a lot of people, he just grinds people out, and many people consider him boring, but because he opens his mouth, people want to watch him fight. A lot of people want to see him win; a lot of people want to see him lose.
~ Henry Cejudo
When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.
~ Oscar Wilde
It's beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart..
~ Oscar Wilde
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
~ Oscar Wilde
The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. 
~ Oscar Wilde
for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
~ Oscar Wilde
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
~ Oscar Wilde
You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Oscar Wilde
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afriad.
~ Oscar Wilde
Our husbands would really forget our existence if we didn't nag at them from time to time, just to remind them that we have a perfect legal right to do so.
~ Oscar Wilde
is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Oscar Wilde
there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England
~ Oscar Wilde
Women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
then suddenly become fascinated by some one else. He would be a wonderful study.
~ Oscar Wilde
There Is Only One Thing In The World Worse Than Being Talked About, And That Is Not Being Talked About. – Oscar Wilde
~ Oscar Wilde
You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.
~ p g wodehouse
MnÄ› to trapné nepÃ…â"¢iÅ¡lo. Jsem rád, že nás vidÄ›l," Ã…â"¢ekl Erik spokojenÄ›. "Ty jsi rád? VzruÅ¡uje tÄ›, když se na tebe pÃ…â"¢i líbání nÄ›kdo dívá, nebo co?
~ P.C. Cast
It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But then, at meals, my attention is pretty well riveted on the foodstuffs.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I mean, when you've got used to a club where everything's nice and cheery, and where, if you want to attract a chappie's attention, you heave a piece of bread at him, it kind of damps you to come to a place where the youngest member is about eighty-seven and it isn't considered good form to talk to anyone unless you and he went through the Peninsular War together.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him, but never at him;
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I worship her, Bertie! I worship the very ground she treads on! continued the patient, in a loud, penetrating voice. Fred thompson and one or two fellows had come in, and McGarry, the chappie behind the bar, was listening with his ears flapping. But there's no reticence about Bingo. He always reminds me of the hero of a musical comedy who takes the centre of the stage, gathers the boys round him in a circle, and tells them all about his love at the top of his voice.
~ P.G. Wodehouse