This has sometimes been misquoted as: If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the decency to betray my country.
What I Believe (1938)
Source: What I Believe and Other Essays
“Can't we be friends?'
I hate your guts, Frankovitch'
Can't our guts be friends?”
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“All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no…”
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Escapology (2002)
“Human and plague bacteria can't be friends..”
Source: When people asked him about Turco-Armenian friendship
BlackBerry's Quest: Fend Off the iPhone http://nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27rim.html in The New York Times (27 April 2008)
“If you've a friend who knows your heart,
Distance can't keep you two apart.”
(zh-CN) 海内存知己,
天涯若比邻。
(zh-CN) Hai nei cun zhi ji,
Tian ya ruo bi lin.
"Farewell to Perfect Du", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 37