Best friendship & passion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”

Happiness Desire Passion Sex Friendship Female Unions Possession Supreme Sole Tenderness Infatuation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.”

Source: Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

“A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.”

Knows Men Should Hate Passion Interest Friendship He Man Cold My Friends Mediums Generous Resentment One Love

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.”

Long Reason Passion Causes Friendship Cold Habit Fit Calm Affection Obligation Heat Mutual Torment Acquaintance Amorous Heat And Cold

Book:Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion and worldviews, ambitions and dreams. You are willing to share your inner thoughts, fears, desires and secrets. When you click, your partner makes you comfortable in your skin, he or she knows what you need even you're quiet, knows when to give advice and when to just listen. When you click, you allow your partner to steadily be what they desire to be, while you be a steady presence”

Knows Needs Giving Important Dream Desire Passion Friendship Secret Share Advice Willing Quiet Ambition Comfortable Skins Partners Steady Worldview Clicks Just Listen Ambitions And Dreams

Author:Rita Zahara

“Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.”

Should Humans Two Passion Friendship Marriage Creative Sacred Human Life Leap Centre Adventurous Complementary Deathless Pivotal Creative Passion

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.”

Love Littles Reason Passion Felt Women Friendship Cold Reason Why Flats

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.”

Mind Passion Friendship Doubt Sorrow Oppression Clarity Ease Calamity Sanctuary Discharge Counselor

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

“A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.”

Ends Young Passion Three Friendship Half Century Months Three Months Be Young Lapses Half A Century

Author:Sophie Swetchine

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