Summary
Oscar Wilde: Wicked Thoughts
Little Ant Library 01.
Translated by: Sado Terzić.
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I choose friends by looks, acquaintances by character, and enemies by intelligence. I don't have any stupid enemies - they are all bright and smart people who hate and respect me.
Thieves today look like honest people. Honest people are therefore forced to look like thieves - in order to distinguish themselves.
The characteristic of today's successful politicians is that they think conservatively and speak liberally.
Most priests spend their time proving the unprovable with unproven evidence.
These are just some of Wicked Thoughts, actually a book of aphorisms, epigrams, paradoxes and sayings of a man of whom George Bernard Shaw said: "Oscar Wilde is incomparably the best orator of his time, and perhaps and of all time".
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