Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
