Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Ten, The Transformation of Values and Vocation
“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
— Jane Austen, book Northanger Abbey
Variant: Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act IV (1696). Compare: "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd", William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii (often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Letter to Frances Stevenson (22 January 1929), quoted in My Darling Pussy: The Letters of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson, 1913–41, ed. A. J. P. Taylor (1975), p. 114
Leader of the Liberal Party
“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
“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 may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
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).
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)
