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.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Enemies Quotes, Friends Quotes

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live...

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...

Hearts live by being wounded.

Hearts live by being wounded.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take...

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take...

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she...

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision...

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision...

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are:...

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are:...