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Friendship quotes

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“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Friendship” - 44 BC

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship” - 1841

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey” - 1817

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1892

“the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“Every friend in power is a friend lost.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.” Confucius, “Analects”

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you” John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men” - 1937

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.” Agatha Christie, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” - 1920

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar” - 1963

“I said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“And she didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks.” Nicholas Sparks, “The Lucky One” - 2008

“To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“Thus it will always happen that he who is not your friend will demand your neutrality, whilst he who is your friend will entreat you to declare yourself with arms.” Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince” - 1532

“But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey” - 1817

“New friends . . . can often have a better time together than old friends.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” - 1934

“That’s the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. You lose friends.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

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