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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
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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