Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
A true friend stabs you in the front.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
True friends stab you in the front.
I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.