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Friendship Quotes
"Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others; his attachment to Kafka was warm and disinterested. The only problem was his artistic orientation: a man of ideas, he knew nothing of the passion for form; his novels (he wrote twenty of them) are sadly conventional; and above all: he understood nothing at all about modern art.Why, despite all this, was Kafka so fond of him? What about you-do you stop being fond of your best friend because he has a compulsion to write bad verse?"
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"I'd trade a hundred pretty faces for one person who's easy to talk to."
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"I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly."
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"Political criticism is our enemies' best friend."
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"This is Annabeth, Jason said. "Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people."
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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."
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"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
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"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"Before one day, which will mean the day before today, I just played chess with a friend the strategies were incrediable the moves which I made were wise and I win the two games... This happens in other games also, however today I and two my friends we played football it ended 7 for me and my friend and for the other fried 5-6 somewhere there... We just played football!"
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"We walked side by side to the station. The sweater kept me comfortable in the night air."Okay, I'll keep plugging away, she said."Wasn't much help, was I?"No, actually, it took a load off me just to be able to talk.We caught trains going in opposite directions from the same platform."You're really not lonely? she asked one last time. And while I was searching for a good reply, her train came."
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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."
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"Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial."
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"There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here."
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"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
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"We're the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don't need to say so; it's just true. Sometimes it seems like we're so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones. We settle into types- Bridget the athlete, Lena the beauty, Tibby the rebel, and me, Carmen, the...what? The one with the bad temper. But the one who cares the most. The one who cares that we stick together."
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"In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends-books-it's because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: "What did they think of us?-"Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?-"Did they like us?-nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading."
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
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"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."
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"Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends."
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"If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do."
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"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
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"Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you'll make new friends quickly!"
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"I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends..."
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"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich."
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"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"
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"Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have been one of them, had desired reunion with something they couldn't have defined, but which seemed to them the only desirable thing on earth. For want of a better name, they sometimes called it peace."
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"I was eleven years old, and I'd lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you. "It made us roommates, he says. I shake my head. "We were always more. "We were enemies."You were the centre of my universe, I say. "Everything else spun around you."
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"Let's do this and this to see the consequences, who is real friend and who isn't. Who understands you and who doesn't!"
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"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
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"Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics."
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"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."
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"I'll be your friend until you find a better one."
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"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour."
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"Friends for life?Why? How long have I got?"
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
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"Celebrate true friends. They are a part of you that always sparkles."
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"It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends."
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"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."
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"There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart."
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