Anne Bronte Quotes

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.

Anne Bronte

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Friendship

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Alone

• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Morning
  • Friendship

• I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Great
  • Relationship

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Friendship

• I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Friendship

• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Friendship
  • Depend
  • Depth

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Trust
  • Friendship

• You blessed my life!Never on me had rested woman's love.My mother even could not find me fair:I had no sister; and, when grown a man,I feared the mistress who would mock at me.But I have had your friendship - grace to youA woman's charm has passed across my path.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Path

• A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • May
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • May
  • Character
  • Serious

• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Country
  • Family
  • Community

• I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Friendship

• Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Curious

• I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Dad

• You see, none of us saw the sandstone or the shale of the Grand Canyon being layed down. There's a supposed ten million year gap there, but I don't see a gap, but that might be different from what Bill Nye would see. But, you see, there's a difference between what you actually observe directly and then your interpretation in regard to the past.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Different
  • Past

• Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Friendship
  • Acquaintance
  • Precede