"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

William Blake, English Poet

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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Friendship, Affection, Friends, Will

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Friendship, Friend, Courage, Service

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Friendship, Books, Experience, Memory

"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

John Green, American Author

Friendship, Friend, Story, Listening, Experience

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

Friendship, Peace, Friend, Conscience, Mind

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Friendship, Home, Friends, Man

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Friendship, Marriage, Time, Participation

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Friendship, Companionship, Life, Hope

"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Friendship, People, Friends

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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."

"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."

Explore more quotes by Theophile Gautier

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

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"You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet."