Oscar Wilde on friendship
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.
George MichaelGeorge Michael I’m surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don’t have any problem telling me I’m acting like an idiot or I’m not that funny.
Paloma FaithPaloma Faith Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll cry. Life never tells us, the when’s or why’s. When you’ve got friends, to wish you well. You’ll find your point when. You will exhale.
Whitney HoustonWhitney Houston Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do. It’s my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.
Whitney HoustonWhitney Houston I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.
Kylie JennerKylie Jenner Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
Mike TysonMike Tyson A lot of things come with fame, whether it’s losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain’t having great things. Because you’ve gotta be the spokesperson for your people.
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