Who is credited with the quote, “True friends stab you in the front.”?

"work is the curse of the drinking class" is my fave.

He was very excentric, had a pet lobster.

I loved his wit, his charm, his truth, his smarts .. I wish I could have met him.

Famous last words: "This wallpaper is rather dull, and either one of us has to go."

Whenever I choose double chance I get it right the first time.

He went to prison for being homosexual, it was illegal to be so at that time. Sodomy was the gross indecency, the charge stated.

Luna, Not as nutty as a pet stone.

Luna, prob saved it from being eaten lol!

thanks for the great info !

Perhaps Oscar Wilde didn't write it as humour. Perhaps it was something that had actually happened to him? He must have had "friends" who turned on him when his secret life became publicly known.

YoungAtHeart, ironic isn’t it? Me too!

NimuaeAvalon, when he made a witty remark to a friend, the friend said , I wish I'd said that, Oscar said , don't worry you will,😂

swish, “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious—both are disappointed.” “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

swish, “Everyone may not be good, but there’s always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” “The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.” “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth.” Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

swish, "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” “There are only two tragedies in life—one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.” “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” “The world is divided into two classes—those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.” “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.” “Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” “Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.” The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” “They’ve promised that dreams can come true, but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

Luna, no he didn't. That was Gerard de Nerval

Tiggsmeister 43, Funny how things haven’t changed so much—homosexuals still have many problems today.

disappointed. didn't expect that

AtPeachtreeCreek, IKR!

swish, love your nom de plume...it was my father's nickname in the RAF.

Luna, awww i want a pet lobster