Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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.
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
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.
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.
Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived