
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
Source: The Best of Me
When asked about his relationship with Camilla during his interview with journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in 1994.
Book: Charles and Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair, Author: Gyles Brandreth, page 280
1990s
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
Source: The Best of Me
"A Friend of Mine" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "A Friend of Mine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYaGJ3f28OI (song on YouTube)
"Michael McFaul - The Frontline Interview" in PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/michael-mcfaul/ (23 June 2017)
“Good friends in hard times and hard friends in good times.”
Bawd (3/24/03)
A toast.
“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 12 (p. 110)
“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock
“Are we long-lost friends, by chance?”
"No, we never got along all that well. Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you."
Simon Lewis and Magnus Bane, pg. 689
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
“Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends”