But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.


The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: A house of pomegranates. De profundis (ed. 1905)

Oscar Wilde Quotes

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a...

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a...

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a...

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a...