Quotes About Companionship

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

I was an only child until I was six.

I was an only child.

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do.

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors. Not, however, that that would alter you much.

As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women.

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

I feel I must come with you. And will you talk to me all the time? No one talks so wonderfully as you do.

All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to

MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.

But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

the man was never comfortable unless he was in the company of people who were crazier than he was.

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

It is this type more than any others whose style it is to stand by another person (or plant or animal), with no intention to influence it, criticize it, or change it-perhaps not even to interact with it-only to be in its presence.

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

We all know what birds of a feather do. And it may be safely surmised that if a bird of any particular feather has been for a long while unable to see other birds of its kind, it will flock with them all the more assiduously when they happen to alight in its vicinity.

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.

Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love

Hear that, Eustace? He wishes we were staying a good long time. I expect it will seem a good long time, said Eustace, philosophically.