Quote

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

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Enemies
Curious
Forgiving
Perhaps
Enemy
Pleasure
Morbid
Find
Check
Checks

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
Oscar Wilde
Image
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Oscar Wilde
Image
An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am happy in my prison of passion
Oscar Wilde
Image
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Oscar Wilde