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“The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre.”
Robert Hall (1764–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.”
Sarah Dessen (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look under the “Love and Friendship” section and see dozens of cards designed for women to send to women, most bashing men, and virtually none saying anything loving about men.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Levin wanted friendship and got friendliness; he wanted steak and they offered spam.”
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Life (1961; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968) p. 111
“Try having a relationship with someone and see if you can establish any sort of friendship without faith. Walk up to a woman and introduce yourself. When she tells you her name, say, "I don't believe you."... Carry on like that for a while, and before long you may be nursing a black eye. Your lack of faith in her is a strong insinuation that she is a liar.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In early 1796, Tipu had dispatched ambassadors, Meer Habibullah and Meer Mohammad Raza, to Zaman Shah with valuable presents, elephants and messages of friendship to pursue the common cause of ‘carrying on the holy war against the infidels and freeing the region of Hindostan from the contamination of the enemies of our religion.’”
Tipu Sultan (1751–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vikram Sampath - Tipu - The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (2024)
“The building of this site would not be possible without the courageous decision by President Bush to liberate Iraq. This building is not only a compound for the embassy but a symbol of the deep friendship between the two peoples of Iraq and America.”
Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the United States building a new embassy in the Green Zone of Iraq — reported in Chelsea J. Carter, Associated Press (January 6, 2009) "U.S. inaugurates $700 million new embassy in Iraq Mammoth new building called sy…
“These last days [of Manet, dying] were very painful. Poor Edouard suffered atrociously. His agony was horrible, death in one of its most appealing forms, that I once again witnessed at a very close range. If you add to these almost physical emotions my old bond of friendship with Edouard, a entire past of youth and work suddenly ending, you will know that I am devastated.”
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a letter to her sister Edma, April 1883; as quoted in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends Denish Rouart - newly introduced by Kathleen Adler and Tamer Garb; Camden Press London 198, p. 1…
“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Communist Manifesto was our Bible... It's in our souls, our friendship, our music… This is music for the people. We were kamikaze. For your land you would kill everyone that came from the capitalist foreign land.”
Till Lindemann (born 1963) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A LITTLE FRIGHT MUSIC, 1998
“They tell us it will be about “emotions” and “friendship,” that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?”
Ai Weiwei (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Goethe, whose letters I've been reading very intensively during the past few weeks, is always stressing Verträglichkeit - agreeing to live and let live - as the most important element of friendship: we shouldn't try to change people, but simply let them be as they are, making the best of even partial concord, instead of trying to force a fictitious perfect harmony.”
Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broken Lights p. 82 Diaries 1951-1952
“Nadir Shah is said to have written to the emperor 'My coming to Cabul and possessing myself thereof was purely out of zeal for Islam and friendship for you...my stay on this side of the Attock is with a view that when those infidels (the Marathas) move towards Hindustan, | may send an army of the victorious Kizzilbash to drive them to the abyss of hell'.”
Nader Shah (1688–1747) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Satish Chandra - Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court, 1707-1740-Oxford University Press (2002) 285. (Fraeser, Nadir Shah, 138. )
“Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God, and in friendship with the world.”
Rowland Hill (preacher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should we not boycott the Soviet Union and its supporters inside the country? If we do so, we can force them to review their stand. Either they give us what we want and what is necessary or they will lose our friendship.”
Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No wearisome days, no sorrowful nights; no hunger or thirst; no anxiety or fears; no envies, no jealousies, no breaches of friendship, no sad separations, no distrusts or forebodings, no self-reproaches, no enmities, no bitter regrets, no tears, no heartaches; "And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.”
Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Political trust. Guided by the vision of forging enduring friendship and peace among the SCO member states, we respect each other’s core interests and choice of development path and support each other in achieving peace, stability, development and rejuvenation.”
Xi Jinping (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true dynamic of a successful friendship and relationship is when the respect is mutual and reciprocal.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of a WTO [Warsaw Treaty Organization] member country. The solving of domestic problems belongs exclusively to the Party and people of each country and any kind of interference can only do harm to the cause of socialism, friendship and collaboration among the socialist countries.”
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commencement address at the Romanian Military Academy (14 August 1968), quoted in The Prague Spring (2010) by M. Mark Stolarik
“Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.”
Mark Kingwell (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And this is the friendship of centuries and centuries of death. We saw the fare welling hands, They were sickly. It was the hand of age, it was the hand of the millennium.”
Farrokh Tamimi (1933–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 95
“If the friendship of England could not be won by the measures I had taken and the advances I had made, then it could never be won in the future. There was no other choice then but to fight.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Church offers comradeship with Jesus in all the affairs of life. It gives men a clearer understanding of the mind of Christ. It is through Christ that they come to know God. The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement co-authored with Joseph Fort Newton and Charles E. Jefferson, edited by Charles Steltzle, as quoted in The American Scrap Book (1928), p. 15; also in Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches (1930), p. 85
“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The endearing elegance of female friendship.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1755 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1755), p. 83
“Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1781 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1781, p. 479
“To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 20, 1782
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
James Boswell (1740–1795) first seen 1777 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (19 September 1777)
“Mister President and Madam first lady, distinguished guests, and residents of Goree Island, citizens of Senegal, I'm honored to begin my visit to Africa in your beautiful country. For hundreds of years on this island, peoples of different continents met in fear and cruelty. Today, we gather in respect and friendship, mindful of past wrongs and dedicated to the advance of human liberty.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) first seen 1796 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to George Washington (30 July 1796)
“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 Brontë (1818–1848) said by 1848 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard, Or keeps the end from being hard. Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. (28)”
Epicurus (342–270 BC) said by 270 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nearly allied to justice are the virtues of beneficence, compassion, gratitude, piety, and friendship.”
Epicurus (342–270 BC) said by 270 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Confidence is the only bond of friendship.”
Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) first seen 1720 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt" (1720)
“Friendship is Love without wings.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has severest virtue for its basis, And such a friendship ends not but with life.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) said by 1719 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) first seen 1711 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No. 15 (March 17, 1711)
Also quoted by: ジョゼフ・アディソン (ja)
“Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give; Not to know love is not to live.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From wine what sudden friendship springs!”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) first seen 1808 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-20) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) said by 1817 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source