Oscar Wilde Quotes About Friends

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

  Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39

• True friends stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friends, Mind, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.86, Wordsworth Editions

• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Birthday, Friends

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

• An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Real, Truthful

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Courier Corporation

• It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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