"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much"
- Oscar Wilde
About this Quote
This quote by Oscar Wilde is a reminder to constantly forgive our enemies, no matter how challenging it might be. It recommends that by forgiving our enemies, we can in fact irritate them more than if we were to hold an animosity. This is since when we forgive our enemies, we are showing them that we are not affected by their actions which we are not going to let them control our emotions. By forgiving our opponents, we are likewise showing them that we are not going to let them have power over us. This quote is a pointer that we should not let our opponents have control over our emotions and that we need to always forgive them, no matter how hard it might be.
This quote is written / told by Oscar Wilde between October 16, 1854 and November 30, 1900. He was a famous Dramatist from Ireland, the quote is categorized under the topic Forgiveness. The author also have 166 other quotes.
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"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation"
