“Their friendship was at an end, it seemed to him. The evil time when he had lived on Ravelston had spoiled everything. Charity kills friendship.”

— George Orwell, book Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 10

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English author and journalist 1903–1950

Kingsley Amis book Take a Girl Like You

Source: Take a Girl Like You (1960), Ch. 17

“Friendship's best,' I said, 'and friendship's forever because no baby can come along to spoil it.”

Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

“Sharpe had been turbulent, ambitious, but one day, Hogan supposed, that restlessness would have found satisfaction. Then, curiously, Hogan found himself resenting Sharpe, resenting him because he had been killed and was thus denying his friendship to those who still lived.”

Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer

Major Michael Hogan, commenting on Sharpe's apparent death, p. 179
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)

“There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.”

Wallace Stegner book Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

“Adam had turned down so many offers for help from Gansey. Money for school, money for food, money for rent. Pity and charity, Adam had thought. For so long, he'd wanted Gansey to see him as an equal, but it was possible that all this time, the only person who needed to see that was Adam.
Now he could see that it wasn't charity Gansey was offering. It was just truth.
And something else: friendship of the unshakable kind. Friendships you could swear on. That could be busted nearly to breaking and come stronger than before.”

Maggie Stiefvater (1981) American writer

pg 296
The Raven Cycle Series, Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014)

“In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, to maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and to end a friendship is to end wealth.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Gautama Buddha, Cakkavatti Sutta, Patika Vagga, Digha Nikaya
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“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist

“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Source: Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#4

“Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

“Their friendship was at an end, it seemed to him. The evil time when he had lived on Ravelston had spoiled everything. Charity kills friendship.”

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