Best Quotes by Oscar Hammerstein II (Top 10)

  1. I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
  2. Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
  3. A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
  4. There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
  5. Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
  6. If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too
  7. Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.
  8. When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
  9. Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
  10. Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

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