Quotes About Friendship

the relationship that I think is the most significant one in twenty-first-century American life: it is friendship. The

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons," Lesley had said when I explained my reasoning. I'd been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I've learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.

Abigail stared suspiciously at Lesley. "Why are you wearing a mask?" she asked. "Because my face fell off," said Lesley. Abigail considered this for a moment and then nodded. "Okay," she said.

Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. … That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

Speak, friend, and enter,

you can live somewhere for years, and your neighbours will only ever hear you as a newcomer, but go home and your friends say, Oh you' ve got such an accent . . . But

I had a slight feeling of babysitting as we walked soberly along together using all our old phrases, making all our old jokes, not quite feeling all our old fondness.

A person's quality is inversely proportional to the quantity of explanation he demands before agreeing to help a friend in need.

Hannah's Oberlin friends, a gaggle of food-co-op-looking people, came up and hugged me one by one.

People, I want to tell you Just how your friend will do They will wait to get your secret And dig a pit for you

And you told me life was learning how to be a friend.

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men:But, at our parting, we will be, as whenWe innocently met.

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

Jens was small with a long fair mustache. Winter was enormous, roughly the size of a large door. I called them Asterix and Obelix. We got on frightfully well.

Richard Brooman-White, Elliott's chum who had eased Philby into Section V, came to stay in 1946 and was very nearly immolated when a waitress in Elliott's favorite restaurant attempted to flambé an omelet at the table by pouring brandy onto a heated pan, causing a violent explosion that set fire to the hair of a Swedish diner. Elliott extinguished her with three glasses of white wine. Philby made a point of stopping off in Switzerland during his

took Lily Sergeyev to see Gone with the Wind in the West End. Lily's kidneys ached, and she was running a temperature. She had convinced herself, once again, that she was

Mayne never told anyone else about his secret attempt to find the remains of his beloved friend, for that would have revealed the other, gentler side to Paddy Mayne, and a hidden broken heart.

One day, supposedly, a Kind Friend could give them what they needed, and clean up after, and possibly even flush the shame from their systems as well. But for the time being they still had to endure the company of other fleshy need machines, human spouters and little bags of weepery.

The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don't worry girls, I hit him.

I still say Kellyanne could do with some real-live mates," went on my dad, as if he was talking to someone inside his beer. Mum had stomped off into the kitchen. "Maybe they are real!" she shouted back at him after rattling a few plates together. "Ever thought about that, ye of little bloody imagination?