Friendship Quotes - Page 72

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

My only politics have been friendship.

I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.