429 private quotes tagged friendship

“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”— Marie de France

“No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.”— Madeleine Albright

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”— William Hazlitt

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”— Joseph Addison

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”— William Hazlitt

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”— Henry Adams

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”— St. Jerome

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”— Charles Lamb

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”— Jane Austen

“But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.”— Ernie Banks

“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”— William Hazlitt

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”— Theophile Gautier

“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”— Fawn M. Brodie

“Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.”— Eleanor Robson Belmont

“In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.”— Tony Garza

“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”— George Herbert

“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”— Anita Brookner

“Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?”— Emily Bronte

“My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.”— Enrique Iglesias

“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”— Charles Peguy

“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.”— Pietro Aretino

“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.”— Petrarch

“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”— Mao Zedong