“A true friend is forever a friend.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
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“True friends stab you in the front”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Also found in variants such as "A true friend stabs you in the front". <br class="br">The earliest known example of this quote comes from Walter Winchell's syndicated newspaper column in mid-January 1955: 'On Broadway, cynically reports Jimmy Nelson, "a true friend is one who stabs you in the front"' <br class="br">The earliest version of this quote found in Google Books is from 1958, where the quote "A true friend is one who stabs you in the front" is attributed to actor Steve Dunne https://books.google.com/books?id=MF5-AAAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig2JCRnKrMAhUC42MKHaNzCGsQ6AEIHDAA. <br class="br">In 1981, a similar quote: "He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front" was attributed to Hollywood writer and producer Leonard Levinson https://books.google.com/books?id=Xbe8zbfuVLgC&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIHTAA. <br class="br">In 1984, an article in Ms. Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=sfIbAQAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIJzAC stated that "the Hollywood definition of a friend" was "someone who stabs you in the front". <br class="br">The earliest attribution to Oscar Wilde was from 1989 https://books.google.com/books?id=CnQJAAAAIAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2oqLfnKrMAhVG52MKHXdPANkQ6AEIJTAC: "A good friend is one who stabs you in the front". No source was given. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: A good friend will always stab you in the front. <br class="br">Source: e.g. "Broadway and Elsewhere" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/3706522/, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, IN), 1955-01-16, p. 4
“though every friend be fled,
Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.
“Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.”
Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist
Source: Glitter Girls and the Great Fake-Out
“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 401
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 832–833
Scott Ritter (1961) American weapons inspector and writer
Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/21/143259 <br class="br">2006