Quotes about friend
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“He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it… because it wore the face of a friend.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Friends are born, not made.”

Henry Adams book The Education of Henry Adams

Source: The Education of Henry Adams

“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.”

Thomas Bernhard book Concrete

Source: Concrete

Dead

“If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.”

George S. Clason book The Richest Man in Babylon

Source: The Richest Man in Babylon

Way, Help

“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Courage, Business

“Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

Sister, Waiting

“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

The Waves (1931)

Death

“A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.”

Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer

Help

“Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.”

Clayton M. Christensen (1952–2020) Mormon academic

Source: How Will You Measure Your Life?

Love, Family, Joy

“Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Something Blue

Friendship

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“My books are friends that never fail me."

(; 17 March 1817)”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Books

“sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend."
"We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.”

Ann Coulter book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Country

“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

Aristophanés The Birds

Birds (414 BC) Context: Epops: You're mistaken: men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties. Chorus [leader]: It appears then that it will be better for us to hear what they have to say first; for one may learn something at times even from one's enemies. (tr. Anon. 1812 rev. in Ramage 1864, p. 45 http://books.google.com/books?id=AoUCAAAAQAAJ&pg;=PA45)

War, Learning

“I want to touch you in real time
not find you on YouTube,
I want to walk next to you in the mountains
not friend you on Facebook.”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Source: I am an Emotional Creature

Mountain, Time

“Friends don't count the cost of favors.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Love, Happiness, Feeling

“Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

God, Fight

“It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”

Melissa de la Cruz Blue Bloods

Source: Blue Bloods

Hurt

“You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends."
Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Understanding

“A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Cats, Horse

“All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.”

Christina Baker Kline (1964) American writer

Source: Orphan Train

People

“You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte book The Flanders Panel

Source: The Flanders Panel

“The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.”

Julie Powell (1973) American blogger

Source: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Problem

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Boy

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

Understanding, Parting

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Home

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Hurt

“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Life, For Friend

“You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.”

Anthony Horowitz book Scorpia Rising

Source: Scorpia Rising

“So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Dogs, Problem, Friendship, For Friend

“Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Smile, Affliction

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

Love, Life

“Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Sister, Daughters

“Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.”

Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Way, Lying, Heart, Cry

“So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?"
I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

World

“Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Sadness, Parting

“I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat.

Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Books, World, School, Music

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Sandman Slim

Learning

“Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

People

“Are you out of your mind?"
It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Lie

“Well, I hate to tell you this," she said, "but your friend is an asshole."
"He's not my friend," said Simon. "And I couldn't agree with you more, actually."
-Maia & Simon about Jace, pg.49-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Hate

“I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea’s neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend’s windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Love, Books, Reading

“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me.
I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Time, Dead

“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Life, People, Family, Time

“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Startled by His Furry Shorts

“It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.”

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

Source: Downtown Owl

Question

“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Source: Paris Spleen

People, Failure, Time

“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Time

“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

Source: Fall of Kings

“I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Night

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variant: The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Way, Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.”
“I’m outraged!” I snarled. “That bastard!”
“Thank you,” Andrea said.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”

Agatha Christie book Lord Edgware Dies

Source: Lord Edgware Dies

Passion

“I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Lovers, For Him, For Friend

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Death, Confidence, Chance, Self-confidence

“Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

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

Friendship, People

“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Diary entry of Friday (2 February)
Source: Nausea (1938)

People, Learning, Appearance

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”

Wilkie Collins book Armadale

Source: Armadale

Books

“Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly
life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are
strong enough to lead it!”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows

Life, World, Strong, Time

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Thinking, Parting

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

Roberto Bolaño book 2666

Source: 2666

People, Music, Idea, Thinking

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)

Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)

Love, God, Pleasure, Books

“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Source: Fear of Flying

Confidence, Envy

“One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Problem

“When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it.

-Sheriff Andy Taylor”

Lauren Myracle (1969) American children's writer

Source: Bliss

“My chest of books divide amongst my friends.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Keats' last poem which doubled as his last will and testament

Books

“Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

“The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Cry

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

Variant: They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Feeling

“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”

Mary Renault book Fire from Heaven

Source: Fire from Heaven

Past

“I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

World, Idea

“Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: A Kiss in Time

“Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

The Sound of Silence Full lyrics online http://www.paul-simon.info/HTML/U-SOS.html Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964) Context: Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence.

“I sucked blood from one of my best friends”

Darren Shan book Cirque du Freak

Source: A Living Nightmare

“I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Secret, Hope

“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Clothes

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1

Forgiveness, Friendship

“I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.”

Armistead Maupin (1944) American writer

Source: 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus

Lovers, Thinking

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

God, Family, Way, Funny

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”

Sarah Vowell book The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

Way

“Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Cars, Guy, Girl

“I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Finally

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

Mary Downing Hahn (1937) American children's writer

Source: Daphne's Book

Life, Change, Sun

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

This may be original with Groucho, but the Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/category/jim-brewer/ mentions the earliest report found in a 1958 issue of Boy's Life magazine where it is attributed to Jim Brewer. Misattributed Variant: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

Books, Dogs, Reading, Funny

“Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: The Gathering Storm

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Quotes about friend
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