Oscar Wilde Quotes About Enemies

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

  Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39
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  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

• Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Enemy, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.812, GENERAL PRESS

• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Forgiving, Enemy

• He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Works of Oscar Wilde".

• As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Enemy, Poverty

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1035, GENERAL PRESS

• The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

  Oscar Wilde

  Enemy, Faces

• A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

• Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love You, Passion, Men

• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

• He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Enemy

  Shaw 'Sixteen Self Sketches' ch. 17

• I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiving, Enemy, Morbid

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.145, Courier Corporation

• As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Enemy, Bernard Shaw, Enough

• Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

  Oscar Wilde

  Common Sense, Romance, Enemy

• To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Enemy

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

• People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, People, Enemy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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