Quotes About Friendship

Ah, Robbie, when we are dead and buried in our porphyry tombs, and the trumpet of the Last Judgement is sounded, I shall turn and whisper to you, 'Robbie, Robbie, let us pretend we do not hear it.

Scelgo i miei amici per la loro bellezza, le mie conoscenze per la loro rispettabilità, e i miei nemici per la loro intelligenza.

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.

Hallward shook his head. You don't understand what friendship is, Harry, he murmured—or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible.  There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. 

Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of Time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.

You don't understand what friendship is, Harry, he murmured—or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Sim, é uma horrenda injustiça. Eu faço uma grande distinção entre as pessoas. Escolho os amigos pela aparência, os conhecidos pelo carácter e os inimigos pelo intelecto. Nunca é demais o cuidado que se põe na escolha dos inimigos. Não quero um que seja parvo. Todos eles têm uma certa intelectualidade, e, por conseguinte, todos eles me apreciam. É ser muito vaidoso? Parece-me que é sê-lo um bocadinho.

What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.

you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a friend of yours, who explained to me the wonder of youth, and you finished a portrait of me that revealed to me the wonder of beauty. In a mad moment that, even now, I don't know whether I regret or not, I made a wish, perhaps you would call it a prayer… .

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Nunca des explicaciones, tus amigos no las necesitan y tus enemigos no las creen

always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

If you wish me to never look at your picture again, I am content. I have always you to look at. If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied. Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation.

There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance

They were both good friends and heavy drinkers, a combination hard to beat.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

When you call me that, smile.

In no company had I ever felt so much an outsider. Yet I liked the company, and wished that it would like me.

You learn who your friends are when the shit hits the fan.

As life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?

I'm lonely, Jeeves.' 'You have a great many friends,sir.' 'What's the good of friends?' 'Emerson,' I reminded him,'says a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature,sir.' 'Well, you can tell Emerson from me next time you see him that he's an ass.' 'Very good, sir.

I've always treated the man with unremitting kindness, and if he wont do a little thing like this for me, I'll kick his spine through his hat.