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Quotes About Friendship

56.Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.
~ George Washington
It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.
~ George Washington
It is better to be alone than in bad company
~ George Washington
It is better to be alone than being in wrong company. Because the wrong company may give joy some time but it will time to time make you realise, you are not suitable in that group. They will involved in their activities and most time you feel alone . And being alone in group is more painful then being alone single. Wrong company means their activities are not suitable to you, and never do things you don't like. Wether being alone but never loose yourself
~ George Washington
a world where yesterday's classmate and fellow altar server becomes tomorrow's martyr to the firing squads.
~ George Weigel
He rarely spoke about his job, and even more rarely expressed an opinion about men and their institutions. He distrusted ideas, as they were always too rigid to reflect reality, which, as he knew from experience, was very fluid. It was only with his friend Pardon, the doctor from Rue Popincourt, that he sometimes, after dinner, came out with what might, at a pinch, pass for revelations.
~ Georges Simenon
No, no, Kit, don't cry!' begged Freddy, putting his arm round her. 'Can't bear you not to be happy! I won't say another word. Never thought there was any hope for me. Just wanted to tell you.
~ Georgette Heyer
Yet, after all, Jenny thought she had been granted more than she hoped for when she married him. He did love her: differently, but perhaps more enduringly; and he had grown to depend on her. She thought that they would have many years of quiet content: never reaching the heights, but living together in comfort and deepening friendship.
~ Georgette Heyer
Well, it is very odd of you to threaten to throw your friends out of the window, I must say, remarked Juliana. He smiled. Not at all. It is only my friends that I would throw out of the window. Dear me! said Juliana, finding the male sex incomprehensible.
~ Georgette Heyer
She thought, in touching innocence, that in Miles Calverleigh she had found a friend, and a better one by far than any other, because his mind moved swiftly, because he could make her laugh even when she was out of charity with him, and because of a dozen other attributes which were quite frivolous – hardly attributes at all, in fact – but which added up to a charming total, outweighing the more important faults in his character.
~ Georgette Heyer
Alas, it is too true. I visited him this morning and found him en deshabille, clasping his brown. He seized on me and demanded a rhyme to some word which I have forgot. So I left him. Can no one convince Philippe that he is not a poet? asked De Bergeret plaintively. De Vangrisse shook his head.
~ Georgette Heyer
Y'know, dear old boy- not my business- but she don't mean an ounce of harm! Only saying to George last night; dear little soul! Not up to snuff at all!' 'No, my God!' agreed the Viscount feelingly. 'Tell you what, Sherry: if I had a wife, which I'm deuced glad I haven't, I'd rather have one like your Kitten than all the Incomparables put together.' 'You would?' said Sherry, staring at him. 'I would,' said Mr. Ringwood firmly.
~ Georgette Heyer
Compassion certainly seems to be wasted on you, sir!' she said tartly. 'Yes, of course it is. Besides, I like you, and I shan't if you pity me.
~ Georgette Heyer
It's awful, isn't it?' 'Yes. The worst fight I ever was in.' 'Well, I'm glad I was in it, anyway. To tell you the truth, I haven't liked it as much as I thought I should. It's seeing one's friends go, one after the other, and being so hellish frightened oneself.
~ Georgette Heyer
You'll dine with us, Comte? And you, Anthony? I trespass on your hospitality! Armand protested. Devil a bit, man! said Rupert. It's Avon's hospitality you trespass on, and our patience.
~ Georgette Heyer
It seemed to Kitty a pity that her new friend's mind was set so irrevocably upon marriage, but her suggestion that Olivia might seek an eligible situation as a governess met with no favour at all. Olivia stared at her with dismay in her big eyes, and unequivocally stated her preference for death.
~ Georgette Heyer
Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. You know, old fellow, he once told Martin,if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!
~ Georgette Heyer
If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.
~ Georgette Heyer
Somewhere in the garden a thrush was singing, the joyous sweetness of its note so much in harmony with her mood that it seemed a part of her happiness. She was content for some moments to listen, not questioning the source of her happiness; but presently she came to full consciousness, and remembered that she had found a friend.
~ Georgette Heyer
That sort of thing always leads to trouble! It is all kindness, and I am sure I am quite as sorry for Miss Broughty as anyone, but one cannot make a friend of everybody in distressing circumstances!
~ Georgette Heyer
taken out of his control by that best of good fellows, who descended upon them at that moment with Chloë on his arm, having
~ Georgette Heyer
But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid of you too, Rupert. More stupid.
~ Georgette Heyer
The sense of struggling through the thickets of a nightmare again swept over her. There was a way out, so her heart's voice cried to her, and could she find it she would find also Damerel, her dear friend. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.
~ Georgette Heyer
Though we were fearfully weary by the end of the third day, our quarrels were still spirited and our friendships firm fixed.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean