Quotes About Friendship

But like Conrad's shipmates on the Narcissus, I never saw any of them again.

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.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, love and you love alone.

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.

A friend is someone you share the path with. ~ African Proverb

a smile is peaceful and can be a start to frienship

Thank goodness for sisters.

Dave says good-bye. Sniff. Advises new king Sol that when playing hide-and-seek with G, it's good to let G find you.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. 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.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

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

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

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

It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship