Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Interpretation
True friends are honest and confrontational rather than deceitful.
This quote by Oscar Wilde suggests that a genuine friend will be straightforward and direct with you, even if it means delivering difficult truths. Unlike those who might betray you with hidden motives, a good friend offers honesty and loyalty, making their intentions clear rather than acting behind your back.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of honesty in friendships.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
A friend in power is a friend lost.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
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