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Friendship quotes

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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”

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

“'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

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

“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

“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

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

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends” L. Frank Baum, “The Road to Oz” - 1909

“sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King’s Landing, and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.” Anthony Trollope, “Phineas Redux” - 1874

“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” Charles Dickens, “Nicholas Nickleby” - 1839

“ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“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

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends;” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!” Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” - 1953

“Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count?” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“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

“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

“these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“They're all right in a way—I'm very good friends with them—pass the time of day when we meet, and all that—but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then—well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“Who did the deed the under-world knows well: A friend in word is never friend of mine.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

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

“a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

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

“Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'” C. S. Lewis, “The Four Loves” - 1960

“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

“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

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

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