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

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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

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

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can...

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of...

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without 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...

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates 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...

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

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

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

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the...

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the...

There is a force that drives everything in this universe; you may call it anything...

There is a force that drives everything in this universe; you may call it anything...

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist...

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or...

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or...

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.