Marcel Proust Quotes
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White
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
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
Paloma Faith
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Sting
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