Quotes About Friendship

Es la dolencia de la tiranía el no confiar ni en los amigos.

We have hundreds of virtual "friends" but no one we can ask to feed the cat. We are a lot more free than our grandparents were, but also more disconnected.

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.

Your father goes out. He meets his friends in barrooms or at the Club. You and Jamie have the boys you know. You go out. But I'm alone. I've always been alone.

I'll be waiting to welcome you with that "my old pal" stuff, and give you the glad hand, and at the first good chance I get stab you in the back.

Siate maledetti tutti voi che cercate l'onore attraverso la demagogia. Possiate restarmi ignoti, voi che non esitate a danneggiare i vostri amici pur di dire qualcosa che risulti gradita alla folla.

Worse still, today's digital network is commodifying friendships so that it becomes, quite literally, the currency of the new social economy.

In the darkness, I had been afraid that he was evil. At dawn, I realized he had been my friend and guardian, watching over me all night long.

She was—I'm not sure how to best describe it—a receiving presence, not a giving one. You talked to her . She listened. Pretty soon, you found you had told her everything about yourself—and you felt better for it too. She had a wonderful soothing way about her. But she hadn't told you anything, nothing at all.

She herself replied to one of her oldest friends who had written asking how to address her: "I really don't know! It might be anything—you might try 'All Hail Duchess,' that is an Alice in Wonderland sort of Duchess, or just 'Greetings' or 'What Ho, Duchess' or 'Say, Dutch'—in fact you can please yourself."28

How can I make your difficult life more tolerable?" "Just be nice to me, I guess? My brain doesn't work.

Thank you. Um . . . how does billing work?" "This one is on me because you're fighting the good fight. Next time I send Julian a fat invoice

I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.' 'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so.

Marriage is a much more important business than falling in love. I think one must concentrate on marriage being essentially a question of mutual love and respect for each other...Essentially you must be good friends, and love, I'm sure, will grow out of that friendship. I have a particular responsibility to ensure that I make the right decision. The last thing I could possibly entertain is getting divorced.

I don't want my friends to be hurt and think I've dropped them but I haven't got time to sit and gossip, I've got things to do and time is precious.

In the summer of 1979 another boyfriend, Adam Russell, completed his language degree at Oxford and decided to spend a year travelling. He left unspoken the fact that he hoped the friendship between himself and Diana could be renewed and developed upon his return. When he arrived home a year later it was too late. A friend told him: "You've only got one rival, the Prince of Wales.

Soon they would be together forever, the subterfuge and deceit ended. It was nearly time to let the world into their secret. The night before the engagement announcement, which took place on February 24, 1981, she packed a bag, hugged her loyal friends and left Coleherne Court forever.

MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past's genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone.

En una ocasión, Churchill tiró de un empujón a la piscina de la escuela, conocida con el nombre de Ducker, a un compañero muy bajito llamado Leopold Amery. Al darse cuenta de que Amery no tenía su edad, sino que era un estudiante del último curso, el joven Winston se disculpó diciéndole: «Mi padre, que es un gran hombre, es también de corta estatura».

With much respect and unaltered personal friendship, I bid you goodbye.

how little friendship counted at the top of politics

epistolary friendship

After a victory there are no enemies, only men.'2