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“I was walking along a path with two friends — the sun was setting — suddenly the sky turned blood red — I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence — there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city — my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety — and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of an entry in his Diary (22 January 1892), on the experience which inspired his famous painting, '(The Scream)' ('Shrik'), originally titled: 'Der Schrei der Natur' ('The Cry of Nature')
“I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to A.A. than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.”
Doug Stanhope (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The struggle for existence is very difficult here [Berlin! - in 1911 Kirchner and his Brücke-friends moved from Dresden to Berlin], but the possibilities are also greater. I hope that we can create a fruitful new school and convince many new friends of the value of our efforts.”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote in a letter to Louise Schiefler, from Berlin, 5 November 1911; as quoted in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Grosstad, Eros und Natur, aus der verborgenen Sammlungen der Region, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst Germany, 2005,…
“So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exeat". The Best Beast (1966)
“In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.”
Stewart Brand (born 1938) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Whole Earth Epilog (1974), "History", p. 753
“You're not gonna use the pink ball. We're not gonna let you do that. Not on camera. Friends don't let friends use pink balls.”
Rick Santorum (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends are found on the battlefield, and unfortunately friends are also lost. And where do we find the measure of that sacrifice? How can we account for the value of that loss? Sometimes we can find an answer in our sense of country, at other times in our Corps. But clearly we can see it in the lives that were able to continue due to the acts of others who were not so fortunate.”
Jim Webb (born 1946) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: {{cite web|accessdate=2008-03-07
“He [King Philip] wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.”
Diodorus Siculus (90–20 BC) said by 20 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 16.91.5-6, translated by C. Bradford Welles, LCL 422 (1963), p. 91
“On rumors: I've heard some pretty bad rumors...that I'm gay. If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean that I'm gay. I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without rumors being spread about me. It's crazy.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.”
Rachel Trachtenburg (born 1993) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On why she prefers New York to Seattle (The New Yorker September 9, 2002
“Lucifer in the flesh, I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
John Boehner (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Cause I've got friends in low places Where the whiskey drowns And the beer chases my blues away. And I'll be okay. I'm not big on social graces; Think I'll slip on down to the oasis. Oh, I've got friends in low places.”
Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.”
Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's Beyoncé, and I'm [Jay-Z's] new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.”
“He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all his friends:— Faithful friends! It lies I know Pale and white and cold as snow; And ye say, 'Abdallah’s dead!' Weeping at the feet and head. I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this: I am not the thing you kiss. Cease your tears and let it lie; It was mine—it is not I.”
Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There’s some friends that I’ve kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.”
Alyson Michalka (born 1989) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An interview, Pinstripe Magazine, February 7, 2011 .
“[Referring to George Cottrell] This 'Posh George' stuff. I mean, what are they even on about? Of course, he's a Tatler figure, an interesting bloke and a colourful guy. But these are trusted friends. I don't dump trusted friends unless they betray me – it's as simple as that.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview during the 2026 Clacton by-election, as cited in "'He's either the Messiah – or the Antichrist': on the campaign trail with Nigel Farage", The Spectator (31 July 2026).
“My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers. My dearest friends have been from all over the place, so before you make comments again about a WOC/POC issue, I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. Respect it.”
Lana Del Rey (born 1985) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (10 January 2021)
“If the Socialist Party is prepared to make friends with Russia, which is a dictatorship with which no Englishman can really agree, why can we not make friends with Italy and Germany? There are people saying Herr Hitler has broken his word. I tell you that the one bargain he has made with us, that the German Navy should be one third of the size of the British Navy, he has kept, and kept loyally.”
Rab Butler (1902–1982) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech for the Conservative candidate in the Bridgwater by-election, Bristol Evening Post (15 November 1938), quoted in Anthony Howard, Rab: The Life of R. A. Butler (1987), p. 78 and Tiberius Gracchus, Your MP (1944), …
“When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.”
Indra Nooyi (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We ought to esteem him alone an agreeable and good-natured man, who, in his daily intercourse with others, behaves in such a manner as friends usually behave to each other. For as a person of that rustic character appears, wherever he comes, like a mere stranger: so, on the contrary, a polite man, wherever he goes, seems as easy as if he were amongst his intimate friends and acquaintance.”
Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556) said by 1556 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I am with old friends... We recount what we have seen what we have felt the good and the evil that the Revolution has done all the assaults the days the nights the punishments and the fate of our unfortunate friends who perished in the time of Terror when good men feared for their lives We are beginning to see the twilight of the times in which our families were happy.”
Jacques-Louis Ménétra (1738–1812) said by 1812 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Warren Roberts (2000). Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary. p. 321.
“I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A world view which supports matches our government’s interests. If Trump’s people are more disgusted by than they are by Jews (the liberals, the Wall Street people, journalists from the East Coast, lovers of black people, Hillary Clinton’s friends), we have struck quite a good deal. Trump and his friends see Israel as a forefront against the barbarians, and they are not exactly very observant.”
Yaron London (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was born a vegetarian. … I feel there is no need to cause another living thing pain or harm. There are so many other things we can eat. I have never eaten meat in my life, and I’m 5 foot 10 and not exactly wasting away. A wise man once said, ‘Animals are my friends, and I’m not in the habit of eating my friends.’ That is exactly how I feel.”
Joss Stone (born 1987) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in "Introducing Joss Stone’s Vegetarian PSA", in peta2.com (13 March 2007). Also quoted in "Soul diva Stone in veggie ad", in Mirror.co.uk (15 March 2007).
“Off screen, I was friends with people I was nasty to in pictures. Judy Canova and I were friends. There’s a terrific line in ‘WAC From Walla Walla’ where she’s trying to pick out a shade of lipstick. I walk by and say ‘window shade.’ [Laughs] Judy played the star bit to the hilt! She had an entourage that followed her around. One woman held an umbrella over Judy’s head to keep the sun off her.”
June Vincent (1920–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I said Trump, then given a 1% change of winning the GOP primary, would win the entire election, people called me crazy. Even friends told me to keep my opinions to myself, as clearly I wasn’t smart enough to talk policy. Today those friends are quiet when they need to issue apologies.”
Mike Cernovich (born 1977) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What It’s Like to be Told You’re Crazy (November 9, 2016)
“There’s a lot of people sitting around in rooms discussing how to make it happen as opposed to just, like, doing it — asking: ‘Do you have any 45-year-old-woman friends who you think are really talented who could submit an application to us?’ ‘Do you have any black friends who are great writers who haven’t had a shot.”
Samantha Bee (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He’s a horrible human being. He does nasty things to his best friends, best friends’ wives, anyone who he first tries to gain their trust and uses it to do bad things to them.”
Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Michael Wolff on audio tape in 2017, quoted in "Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: ‘I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend’" U.S. House of Representatives Document Repository (February 27, 2025)
“Those who fail to provide for themselves will eventually injure their friends and those who always provide for their friends will eventually injure themselves.”
Zhang Chao (1650–1707) said by 1707 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221
“God protect me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies. [Variation: Defend me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies myself].”
Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653–1734) said by 1734 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The quote has been attributed to Voltaire, who was using it after Villars. Quoted in Connie Robertson, Dictionary of Quotations, 1998
“I would like to see writers writing about movement from one island to the other. I don't really want a novel about Trinidad. I want the characters to move and go up to UWI [University of the West Indies] in Jamaica and spend a week in Barbados—have friends in Barbados, have friends in Cuba. This is what I’m hoping to do in the new novel.”
Sam Selvon (1923–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In interactions with friends, we all care about examining each others’ images, and we carefully emphasize the images that we present to our friends. The closer one is with someone, the more we care about this. People never want to feel insignificant in the eyes of someone else, unless we despise this person and want them to quickly forget us.”
“I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as `Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice. I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.”
“Keep your enemies close, but your friends closer. That way your friends are between you and your enemies.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is always important to know who you friends are and aren't. And the communists were never the liberals' friends. The fact is that the joke is on liberals, except that none of this is really very funny.”
Paul Kengor (born 1966) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Return of the Dupes and the Anti-Anti-Communists (June 13, 2008)
“He saved me, I saved him,” Alice said. “The usual, really. What else are friends for?” “If you ask me,” the cat said, “friends ought to keep you out of situations where you need saving.”
Django Wexler wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Again, I said it before, but I’m always surrounded by amazing female friends and they’re the ones who are with me and kind of slap me around when I’m doing something wrong. And to do a show about all these characters I can relate, sympathize and really care about, it’s great. I mean, I see my friends in all of the characters, all of the female characters, which is really nice.”
Yunjin Kim (born 1973) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On working with a female-centered cast in "Exclusive Interview: Yunjin Kim on new ABC series MISTRESSES and the LOST finale" in Assignment X (26 August 2013)
“Let’s let bygones be bygones. Let’s move on and be friends. There will be many benefits if we can be friends together. There is no reason to be enemies.”
Hanoi Hannah (1931–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We thank Almighty God, who said in his holy book: Ye who believe, take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is of them.”
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (born 1965) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In full: Al-Qaeda statement (10th October, 2001)
“If your friends would stop wanting you around because you’re not exactly like them, they’re not very good friends.”
Seanan McGuire (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Serbia is on its European path, but Serbia has to live, and has friends in the U.S. but it also has friends and it is not ashamed of them in Moscow and in Beijing.”
Aleksandar Vučić (born 1970) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Serbia's Vucic plays down hopes for quick political deal with Kosovo (22 September 2020), Reuters
“The people working at the White House at the time are friends of mine, and they're friends of mine to this day. I don’t want to trivialize how difficult their decisions were. They did not have good choices.”
Michael McFaul (born 1963) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael McFaul - The Frontline Interview" in PBS (23 June 2017)
“We won't sacrifice our ties with any of our allies or good friends over business relations with another country. We firmly believe no country in the world can restrict our sovereign decision to make friends with another country.”
Mario Abdo Benítez (born 1971) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mario Abdo Benítez (2019) cited in: "Paraguay will always be a loyal ally: Abdo Benitez" in Taipei Times, 12 October 2018.
“A cynical joke or perhaps an exclamation has appeared, I’ve already heard it from several people in Moscow. "All hope is pinned on famine". What is meant is that famine will begin and they [in the West] will come to their senses, will remove sanctions and will be friends with us because it's impossible to not be friends.”
Margarita Simonyan (born 1980) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chief Russian propagandist: “All our hope is pinned on famine”", khpg (24 June 2022)
“Are we friends today?" she asked him. "There's a level, Justin, on which we're always friends. Then there's a level on which we can't be.”
Robert Stone (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think all European countries are increasing their spending on the defence and we are going to do that. We have also a large transformation of our defence. But I think the United States always will need some friends with the same type of value since basis and their closest friends are in the NATO alliance”
Erna Solberg (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I used to buy small products from abroad through family, friends and hawk them during holidays to my friends. Later on, after saving money I opened my own boutique that deals in selling and buying clothes online.”
Kate Bashabe (born 1990) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kate Bashabe: Hawker-Turned Fashionista", KT Press (June 2019)
“I have no enemies and I have no friends in the industry. Do you always see me in parties or events? I also tell younger actors who are close to me to avoid keeping enemies and friends.”
Rachel Oniga (1957–2021) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/10/20/no-friends-actress-rachel-oniga/?amp=1
“They're , . . my friends." You said you hated having friends. You said all they did was waste your free time, and cost you money at Christmas.”
Ali Shaw (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source