Top 25 Neighbour Quotes of 29

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

Thomas Aquinas

Love Is, Aspect, Neighbour

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

Henri Bergson

Laughter, Intention, Neighbour

Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.67, Courier Corporation

When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.

Rumi

Faults, Neighbour

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

Saadi

Faults, Defects, Neighbour

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Change, Bihar, Neighbour

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2000). “March 1998 to March 1999”

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

W. H. Auden

Heart, Crooked, Neighbour

W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.76, DEBOLS!LLO

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Pythagoras

Neighbour

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Samuel Butler

Should, Worst, Neighbour

Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

The Britain I love works with its friends and neighbours it doesn't walk away from them.

Ruth Davidson

Britain, Walks, Neighbour

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.

Confucius

Loyal, Charitable, Neighbour

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Teresa of Avila

Perfect, God Love, Neighbour

St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

Vanessa Paradis

Jet, Neighbour, Ifs

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

C. S. Lewis

Screwtape Letters, Neighbour

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

I am my nearest neighbour.

Tacitus

Neighbour

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

William Penn

Allowance, Rebuke, Neighbour

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.166

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Matthew Arnold

Patience, Despair, Neighbour

Matthew Arnold (1853). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.212

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Lester

Favourite, Neighbour, Neighbourhoods

I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.

James Anthony Froude

Believe, Heart, Neighbour

James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.41