- Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“When a man marries, dies or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him”. - Quotes by William Shakespeare
“I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul remembering my good friends. Our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant; a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends. Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news, Hath but a losing office, and his tongue, Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember’d tolling a departed friend. Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. He that wants money, means and content is without three good friends. Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. A friendly eye could never see such faults. A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least. But if the while I think on thee, dear friendAll losses are restored and sorrows end”.
- Quotes by Seneca
“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injuries”. - Quotes by John Selden
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet”. - Quotes by George Santayana
“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different”. - Quotes by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise? ‘Twas one of my most intimate enemies”. - Quotes by Francois
“It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends than to be deceived by them. We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire”. - Quotes by Alexander Pope
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. True friendship’s laws are by this rule exprest, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend. Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend. There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and, inded friendship itself is only a part of virtue”.
Tags: Alexander Pope, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Francois, Friends And Friendship, George Santayana, John Selden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seneca, William Shakespeare
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