Companion Quotes

What a charming companion, what a delightful parent, what a courteous and engaging friend my Father would have been, and would pre-eminently have been to me, if it had not been for this stringent piety which ruined it all.

Edmund Gosse
- Friend
- Parent
- My Father
Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

Minna Antrim

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Samuel Richardson
- Life
- Different
- Evening
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.

Michelle Huneven
- Imagination
- Rich
- Empathy
I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.

Mother Angelica
- Struggle
- Dying
- Finished
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

Christine de Pizan
- God
- Woman
- Slave
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Thomas More
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

Haruki Murakami

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Gerard Manley Hopkins