Quotes about friendship

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Source: Charlie Bone and the Shadow

Magnus Bane to a monkey in 1791, p. 12.
Source: The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru (2013)
Context: He paused and admired the bromeliads, huge iridescent flower-like bowls made out of petals, shimmering with color and water. There were frogs inside the jewel-bright recesses of the flowers.
Then he looked up into the round brown eyes of a monkey.
'Hello, companion,' said Magnus.
The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.
'I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship,' said Magnus.

Source: Saint Anything

Source: The Bellmaker

Source: Carry on, Jeeves

Source: The Book Thief

Source: Seize the Night

Source: The Love Dare

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Source: Mortality

Source: One Day

Source: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Walden

Source: After the Quake

Source: Ragtime

Source: Dune

Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare

Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 1

Source: Between the Lines

No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
Context: Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: The Other Side of the Story

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Source: Shantaram

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Source: Calico Captive

Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), p. 257: Let us swear an eternal friendship. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. The Rovers

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula

Source: Spindle's End

As quoted in Katherine Mansfield : A Biography (1953) by Antony Alpers, p. 266

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Source: Wintergirls

Source: The Condition

Source: All Together Dead

Source: Something Blue

Source: Some Do Not ... & No More Parades

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Crossing to Safety

Variant: It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

(19 September 1777)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Variant: 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.

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Source: The Great Gatsby

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Source: The Eyes of the Dragon

1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Context: Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people -- a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles
Context: About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people -- a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.

Source: Shield of Thunder

Source: Going Bovine

Source: Kartography

Source: A Corner of the Universe, ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

Source: Lock and Key

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Source: Seize the Night

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

Source: The Left Hand of God

Source: Essays: First Series

Source: Crossing to Safety

Source: The Giver

Variant: Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
Source: Magician: Apprentice

Source: The Godfather

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Pearls of Lutra

Source: A Theology of Liberation

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Source: The Interestings

Source: The Autograph Man

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: The Winter King