Friendship Quotes

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen "Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain." ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen "If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends." ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be. ~ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens "If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?" ~ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. ~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson