(1086 quotes found)
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
Oscar Wilde
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.”
William Arthur Ward
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Antonio Porchia
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind”
William Hazlitt
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.”
David Pratt
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports”
Richard Burton
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
Eustace Budgell
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