Oscar Wilde Quotes About Friendship

• 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

• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• True friends stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

• Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Love You, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, Xist Publishing

• A good friend will always stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

• 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. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

• 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

• He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Works of Oscar Wilde".

• 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

• Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Never Forget, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2001). “The Devoted Friend”, p.9, Electric Book Company

• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.86, Harvard University Press

• 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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