Friendship Quotes - Page 79
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.203
I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “The History Man”, p.87, Pan Macmillan
Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.45
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.201
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.449