Quotes about friend
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“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him please to give up painting.”

Edouard Manet (1832–1883) French painter

spoken to Claude Monet about Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1874), as quoted by John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, Vol.1 (1961).
1850 - 1875

Boy, Painting

“Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Way, Loyalty

“FUTURE, n.
That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Happiness, Time, Future

“Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Dreams, Wolf

“I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Girl, Thinking

“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Feeling, Freedom

“To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Affliction, Sun

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

Exercises

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Way, Birthday, Birthday

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”

Stephen King book The Body

Variant: I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
Source: The Body

“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Said on his deathbed, 1827

“I don't remember everything," he said.
"Not yet. But I remember you."
He brought her hand up, touched the gold ring on her right index finger, the Fair Folk metal warm to the touch.
"Clary," he said.
"You're Clary. You're my best friend.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees.
“Best time of day,” said Will.
Yes,” Horace agreed. “What’s for breakfast?”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Tree, Time, Sun

“Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.”

Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain

Islam: A Short History (2000)
Context: The Western media often give the impression that the embattled and occasionally violent form of religiosity known as "fundamentalism" is a purely Islamic phenomenon. This is not the case. Fundamentalism is a global fact and has surfaced in every major faith in response to the problems of out modernity. There is fundamentalist Judaism, fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Hinduism, fundamentalist Buddhism, fundamentalist Sikhism, and even fundamentalist Confucianism.

Democracy

“I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

World, Sadness, Thinking

“He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket.
"I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Business

“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Passion

“he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you. With or Without that piece of paper”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

Life

“If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Love, Hope, Personality

“I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years."
"There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors," Lucian said.
Magnus hated this guy.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Last Stand of the New York Institute

Hate, Family, Guy, Question

“I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Way, Understanding, Thinking, Country

“It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.”

Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian

Source: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.
—Luthe”

Robin McKinley book The Blue Sword

Source: The Blue Sword

World, Fear, Learning

“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Way, For Friend

“Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

Women, Men, Anger

“The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.”

Justine Larbalestier (1967) Australian young-adult fiction author

Source: Zombies Vs. Unicorns

Way, Parent, Parting

“Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Death, Dreams

“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

People, Jerk, Personality

“In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Life, Family

“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Pain

“At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Truth, Fear, Personality

“I didn't think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Thinking

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Silence, Back To Work

“One can never had too many librarian friends.”

Jennifer Chiaverini (1969) American writer

Source: The Wedding Quilt

“From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

"Dedicatory Ode", stanza 22
Verses (1910)

Love, Home, Laughter

“Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

“You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

Love, Dreams

“All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in a while?”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Rithmatist

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

"Travel", st. 3, Second April, 1921
Source: The Selected Poetry

Heart, Training

“Y'all take care of yourself now… strange and interesting friends are hard to find.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Books, Thinking, Reading

“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Books, School

“the important thing is not what we (look) like, but the role we play in our best friend's life.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Life

“There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”

D.E. Stevenson (1892–1973) British writer

Source: Listening Valley

People, Books, Travel, Winter

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

Time

“Calvin: Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
p77”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Source: Bright Lights, Big City

Soul

“Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off.
Because if not, how boring would that be?”

Alyson Nöel book Radiance

Source: Radiance

Understanding

“My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Friends don't let friends commit social suicide.”

Sonya Sones book What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

Suicide

“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”

Toni Bentley (1958) Australian writer

Lovers, Idea, Clothes

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

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

Housing

“Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Art

“And so they fought.
And so they laughed.
Friends.
And before they knew it,
They were inseparable.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Soul, Star, Personality

“Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt."
"Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty.
"I hate wonder bread," Jason said.
Together, they charged.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Hate, Guy, Time

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Friendship, Pleasure, Friendship, For Friend

“Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

Money

“best friends just don't leave your side”

Blink-182

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”

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

From a review of the revised edition of “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White published in Esquire, November 1959.

Happiness

“I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood.”

Anthony Kiedis book Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue, 2004

People, Behavior, Childhood

“When the Dead do walk, seek water’s run,
For this the Dead will always shun.
Swift river’s best or broadest lake
To ward the Dead and haven make.
If water fails thee, fire’s thy friend;
If neither guards, it will be thy end.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (2001), pp. 359-360.

Water, Dead

“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Source: The Courtship of Miles Standish

Friendship

“Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Parent, For Parents

“He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Personality

“I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“If you want to keep a friend, never test him.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

People, Feeling, Hurt, Heartbreaking

“Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them”

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

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Hate, Way

“Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Food, Time

“I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Children, Family, Imagination, Thinking

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Lovers

“your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Love, World, Loss, Time

“Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

Falseness

“Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew."

Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Home, Boy

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities."”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 21

Love, Books, Literature, Sense

“After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Lovers, Change

“I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (2005)

“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Inscription on the monument of a Newfoundland dog (1808).

Life, Dogs

“Prosperity is full of friends.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue”

Alice Miller (1923–2010) Swiss psychologist

Pain, Pleasure, Time, Friendship

“These times make for strange friends and unexpected enemies.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Time

“Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Economic Warfare Quotes

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill

Source: The Big Fat Kill

People, Time

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Clothes

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Positively 4th Street

“Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

People

“We need books… because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”

Steve Almond (1966) American writer

Books, Heart

“Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great and now you're just friends. Drives girls crazy. Know what I mean?" Yes. Clary thought. "No." Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Sex, Guy, Girl

“For no one, in our long decline,
So dusty, spiteful and divided,
Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,
Or loved them half as much as I did.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

Love

“Why have you chosen to spare me?”
“I want us to be…what is your word? Friends.”
“Psychotic rapists don’t have friends.”
“I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered.”
“Ha.” I’d set myself up for that one.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Variant: I want us to be... what is your word? Friends."
"Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered."
(Mac & V'lane)
Source: Bloodfever

“So why did you want to kiss me?"
"We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged.
I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are."
"And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Smile, Kiss

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Quotes about friend
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