“Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
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“True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.”
“In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.”
“The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
Source: The American notebooks
“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: The spectator
“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.”
“He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”
Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material
“Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.”
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
“Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.”
Source: Salmagundi
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”
Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Third edition
“I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.”