Friend Quotes
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As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
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I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.
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Diantha came so close to saying she would do whatever Patricia wanted, anything at all. And then it hit her: She was being Trickstered. She’d been this close to becoming a slave to her former best friend. Diantha backed away, almost tipping over a teak side table full of drinks.
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May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.
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... it's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.
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To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
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She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.
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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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Hope—you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it’s not. It’s the opposite. It’s simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won’t eat because you’re going to give it away, and maybe you’ll get a message through to your friend.
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You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something new?" "Like bistros?" She nudged him playfully with her elbow. "No, not just that. Cities have a vibrancy, a sense of excitement that you can't find in a small town." "I don't doubt it. But to be honest, I've never been interested in things like that. I don't need those things to make me happy. A nice quiet place to unwind at the end of the day, beautiful views, a few good friends. What else is there?
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How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?
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My boy of steel. My man of honor. My perfect friend. My timeless soldier.
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Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.
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The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
