(17 quotes found)
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
Oscar Wilde
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
Henry David Thoreau
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
Robert Southey
“A friendship that can end never really began”
Publilius Syrus
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Lord Byron
“But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine”
Thomas Jefferson
“Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.”