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Quotes About Friendship

The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
~ William Goldman
Every night for the next year he always said something like that to me: 'Thank you for everything, Westley, good night now, I'll probably kill you in the morning.
~ William Goldman
Fezzik reached the top of the wall and started carefully climbing down the other side. I understand everything, he said. You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness. That's what I mean, said Fezzik.
~ William Goldman
Inigo looked at him. You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine? You're my friend, my only one. Pathetic, that's what we are, Inigo said. Athletic.
~ William Goldman
Butch: Y'know, when I was a kid, I always figured on being a hero when I grew up. Sundance: Too late now. Butch: You didn't have to say that—what'd you have to say that for?
~ William Goldman
Butch: Now after we.... wait a minute... Sundance: What? Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there? Sundance: Lefors ? No. Butch: Good. For a minute there I thought we were in trouble.
~ William Goldman
Down is our direction, Fezzik, but I can tell you're a bit edgy about all this, so, out of the goodness of my heart, I will let you walk down not behind me, and not in front of me, but right next to me, on the same step, stride for stride, and you put an arm around my shoulder, because that will probably make you feel better, and I, so as not to make you feel foolish, will put an arm around your shoulder, and thus, safe, protected, together, we will descend.
~ William Goldman
You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine? You're my friend, my only one. Pathetic, that's what we are, Inigo said. Athletic.
~ William Goldman
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
~ William Hazlitt
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~ William Hazlitt
I have one friend, a dog; yes, I would sooner have old Pepper than the rest of Creation together. He, at least understands me-and has sense enough to leave me alone when I am in my dark moods.
~ William Hope Hodgson
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
~ William J. Bennett
Often we have tried to segregate ourselves from it all. We have found three refuges: ourselves, our books . . . our friends . . . the lakes and woods around Berlin.
~ William L. Shirer
The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends' marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything.
~ ChildHood
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
~ Chilo
So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick ? . . . That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're just hangers-on to someone more important .
~ China Mieville
Strictly speaking, she thought, this place was a cross between a forest and a jungle. "This is a jorest," she said to Hemi. "Yeah," he said. "No, it's a fungle." They grinned.
~ China Mieville
In the streets of Un Lun Dun: a group of a girl, a half ghost, a talking book, a piece of rubbish, and two living words was unusual but not very.
~ China Mieville
This gentleman is cactus," said Doul.
~ China Mieville
Spending time with most automa is like accompanying someone brutally cognitively damaged, but Ehrsul was a friend. "Come save me from the village idiots," she sometimes said to me after downloading updates alongside other automa.
~ China Mieville
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
~ Chinese proverb
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
~ Chinese proverb
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
~ Chinese proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
~ Chinese proverb