(7 quotes found)
“I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.”
Kingsley Amis
“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
“The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it”
Sylvia Bremer
“"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Louisa May Alcott
“For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.”
Indian Proverb
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
C.S. Lewis
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Elbert Hubbard
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