Always Forgive Your Enemies Nothing Annoys

This quip is misattributed to Wilde. Quote Investigator found no trace of it in his published work, letters, or documented speech. The earliest known version — "I always forgive my enemies; nothing enrages them more" — appeared in The International journal in 1911. The current form, with "annoys" replacing "enrages," was first traced to British author Percy Colson in The Sketch newspaper in April 1949. The Wilde misattribution solidified after Reader's Digest repeated it under his name in June 1954.