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Oscar Wilde on Saint Patrick's Day

1854–1900

← All quotes by Oscar Wilde

5 quotes

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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

Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature — it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist — to sympathise with a friend's success.

The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)

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

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.