Friendship Quotes - Page 24

• Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Smart, Reading, Thinking

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• He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Cheating Men, Cheat

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• Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Dog, Gangsters, Asks

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• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Positive, Looks, Lost

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)

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• There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Memories, Heart, Magic

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

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• Have no friends not equal to yourself.

  Confucius

  Positive, Patience, Integrity

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

  John Selden

  Kings, Real, Shoes

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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• Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

  Samuel Pepys

  Real Friends, Bed, Proud

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press

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• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  George Santayana

  Life, Motivational, Real Friends

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Book, Reading, Forever

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Real Friends, Heaven

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• 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

  Love, Cute Relationship, Real Friends

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1247, Ageless Reads

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• Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

  E. B. White

  Change, Wisdom, Done

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Best Friend, Birthday, True Friend

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

  Markus Zusak

  Inspiring, Snow, Perfect

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.55, RH Childrens Books

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• A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

  Maya Angelou

  Funny Friend, Waiting, May

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.36, Random House

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• Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

  Richelle Mead

  Romance, Enemy, My Best Friend

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• Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

  William James

  Life, Littles, Intimacy

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

  Steve Berry

  Music, Bridges, Bottom

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1878, Ballantine Books

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• But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Kindness, Blessing, Blow

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• Hand
  Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
  And great hearts expand
  And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

  Robert Browning

  Eye, Heart, Good Friend

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.159, Wildside Press LLC

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• All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

  Taylor Swift

  Needs, Like Me, My Friends

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• A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Relationship, Children

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Marriage, Real

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• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Demand, Ability, Conditions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.49, Coyote Canyon Press

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