“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

— George Gordon Byron

Quoted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington in Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington http://books.google.com/books?id=w648AAAAYAAJ&q="Friendship+may+and+often+does+grow+into+love+but+love+never+subsides+into+friendship"&pg=PA179#v=onepage (1834).

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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

“In friendship and in love, one is often happier because of what one does not know than what one knows.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Dans l'amitié comme dans l'amour on est souvent plus heureux par les choses qu'on ignore que par celles que l'on sait.
Variant translation: In friendship as in love, we are often happier due to the things we are unaware of than the things we know.
Maxim 441.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm”
Amicitia semper prodest, amor aliquando etiam nocet

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXV

“Because friendship is intercommunication of love, therefore where love is not mutual, there can be no friendship.”

Francis de Sales book Introduction to the Devout Life

http://books.google.com/books?id=d8kCAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Because+friendship+is+intercommunication+of+love+therefore+where+love+is+not+mutual+there+can+be+no+friendship%22&pg=PA145#v=onepage
Car l'amitié est un amour mutuel, & s'il n'est mutuel, ce n'est pas amitié.
http://books.google.com/books?id=orIOAAAAQAAJ&q=%22car+l'amiti%C3%A9+est+un+amour+mutuel+%26+s'il+n'est+mutuel+ce+n'est+pas+amiti%C3%A9%22&pg=PA242#v=onepage
Pt. 3, ch. 17
Introduction to the Devout Life (1609)

“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) Swiss author

Reflections on Suicide (Réflexions sur le suicide, 1813), Section 1

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”

Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist

Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

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